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Richard MacManus at Read/WriteWeb is done calling it web2.0. Good for him. Glad to see the hype dying down a bit. The whole web 2.0 moniker was kind of embarrassing and besides about 500 people, nobody knew what we were talking about. I’m always surprised at while we passed the 1 billion internet user mark this year, it’s still generally the same handful of people from 5 years ago that are the most involved with pushing the web forward.
I like the reference to the nuclear winter, that’s just what it felt like. Innovation ceased in most internet sectors and everyone went home when there wasn’t easy money for their new groundbreaking web-based calendar.
The problem with many web 2.0 ideas is that they do in fact suck, big time. Anyone more than 50 miles from San Francisco not pulled into the Valley reality distortion field knows that.
The web is more exciting these days, but just barely. Flickr is fun, and there are a few others that rely on recommendation engines that look promising, mostly in the music space. Social bookmarks do little for me, Google still rules, although seeing what other people are bookmarking (when it’s embedded in their blogroll) is somewhat useful.
Open profiles, persistent portable credentials, context-sensitive communication and everything is an RSS feed. That’s 2006 in my mind. If you’re not working hard on these things, you’re just building another web calendar app.
