Nice piece from 20/10/2006 by Ivor Tossell in the technology section of The Globe and Mail poking fun at the Web 2.0 world, and drawing a parallel with the situation during the first dot.com boom. Excerpt:
"Broadly speaking, the term refers to sites that fill their pages with user-submitted content, like blogs or photos or comments, and play up the Web's social-networking potential. Enthusiasts heralded Web 2.0 as a breakthrough in digital democracy, letting everyday users create media content. It also happened to be a heck of a lot cheaper to let users generate content (or, frequently, steal it) than to pay people to write the stuff.
Web 2.0 sites have gained a degree of legitimacy, thanks especially to a few high-profile success stories, like the formerly Canadian photo-sharing site Flickr.com, which Yahoo bought last year. And in their success, they've spawned an entirely entertaining cult of conformity, with cookie-cutter start-ups emerging weekly, laden with funny names and purposes that are all more of the same. Yet they keep popping up, and they keep getting funded. This, my friends, is where the money is -- if you toe the line."
Via The Top Ten Lies of Web 2.0, from where the image below is culled, and Stephen Downes.
27/4/2007. See also Charlie O'Donnell's Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks.
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