Comments on: Facebook is king in the reign of the Web 2.0 ridicule http://www.techspot.com/blog/97/facebook-is-king-in-the-reign-of-the-web-20-ridicule/ Technology news and commentary by TechSpot.com staff Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nick http://www.techspot.com/blog/97/facebook-is-king-in-the-reign-of-the-web-20-ridicule/#comment-9493 Nick Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:11:12 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/blog/97/facebook-is-king-in-the-reign-of-the-web-20-ridicule/#comment-9493 Web 2.0 is the next evolution of platform. It's making waves b/c Microsoft ignored it for so long b/c they were milking the Windows cow way too long. Other companies, like Facebook, Salesforce.com and Google have embraced it and come up with some pretty innovative ways to use the web. User aren't embracing the idea of the internet as a platform, they're using it. It is self evident. So the big question is, are they going to make money. It's not easy to to say, but these companies are relevant now and they have the users attention. This is what counts. What they do with it, is up to them. Did anyone see Google making this type of money five years ago? No, but they are. Web 2.0 is the next evolution of platform. It’s making waves b/c Microsoft ignored it for so long b/c they were milking the Windows cow way too long. Other companies, like Facebook, Salesforce.com and Google have embraced it and come up with some pretty innovative ways to use the web. User aren’t embracing the idea of the internet as a platform, they’re using it. It is self evident.

So the big question is, are they going to make money. It’s not easy to to say, but these companies are relevant now and they have the users attention. This is what counts. What they do with it, is up to them. Did anyone see Google making this type of money five years ago? No, but they are.

]]> By: Phantasm66 http://www.techspot.com/blog/97/facebook-is-king-in-the-reign-of-the-web-20-ridicule/#comment-7784 Phantasm66 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:37:10 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/blog/97/facebook-is-king-in-the-reign-of-the-web-20-ridicule/#comment-7784 I don't think its so much a boom and bubble as it is an iteration... an evolutionary step. AJAX and related technologies are really enabling websites to provide applications that respond in a manner that is just so much more satisfying to use, and many are using this effectively. Along the way, many startups are getting some good ideas, and selling those ideas to investors, but in the end most of these "next Googles" will come to pretty much nothing. Then, a few years down the line, we'll get another iteration, Web 3.0 (likely to involve something to do with data and metadata getting smarter) and we'll have the same process all over again. This pattern is likely to persist in the Web for some time to come, until it evolves into its eventual form. Web 4.0, for example, will likely involve the Internet moving beyond personal computing and into other areas of our lives and into new devices.. like reading glasses that can do video conferencing, fridges that can email you when the meat is off, etc. Each of these evolutionary steps will come with many such "next Googles", with only a small handful of them being sucessful. I don’t think its so much a boom and bubble as it is an iteration… an evolutionary step. AJAX and related technologies are really enabling websites to provide applications that respond in a manner that is just so much more satisfying to use, and many are using this effectively. Along the way, many startups are getting some good ideas, and selling those ideas to investors, but in the end most of these “next Googles” will come to pretty much nothing. Then, a few years down the line, we’ll get another iteration, Web 3.0 (likely to involve something to do with data and metadata getting smarter) and we’ll have the same process all over again.
This pattern is likely to persist in the Web for some time to come, until it evolves into its eventual form. Web 4.0, for example, will likely involve the Internet moving beyond personal computing and into other areas of our lives and into new devices.. like reading glasses that can do video conferencing, fridges that can email you when the meat is off, etc. Each of these evolutionary steps will come with many such “next Googles”, with only a small handful of them being sucessful.

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