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Web 2.0 forever blowing bubbles, or fit to burst?
11 May 2006
Posted by Dave WilbyBig cheeses from E-consultancy, Yahoo!, and The Times built their keynote speeches around the advent of the user-centric internet on the opening day, while execs and VPs from the likes of eBay, MSN, Lastminute, Conde Nast and EMAP all confronted issues of marketing and content creation "for a 21st century audience" as the week unfolded.
But will Web 2.0 become a more mature, robust marketplace for entrepreneurs and purely online businesses than good ol' Web 1.0, or will a naive trust in the global public's ability to come together as an abiding community prove its downfall once again?
This article from the San Francisco Chronicle explores the various loopholes already being exploited in our next generation internet for financial gain, and asks the question - will the bubble burst again?
What do you think? Please let us know.
tags: Web 2.0
Comments:
I think any movement that takes five long pages to explain isn't really a movement: it's a bunch of stuff that's going on. There's doubtless lots of clever stuff going on now with social applications, AJAX applications and online marketing. Some of it is genuinely exciting and inspirational. But I can't help thinking that 'Web 2.0' just means 'all the internet stuff going on now' most of the places it's used.
I think the fact that you've used the Wikipedia entry for 'Web 2.0' to define Web 2.0 demonstrates the extent to which wikis and 'social media' have already become entrenched.
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