Looking at wordpress.com I found a blog named "Go Flock Yourself". In incredibly funny (yet offensive) manner these guys bash Web 2.0 hype.
While they push things a little bit to extreme, their rants make a lot of sense. Web 2.0 is an overhyped and a vague term. Joel Spolsky also nails it down.
All those services like Flickr, del.icio.us, etc which are posterchildren of "Web 2.0" are really nothing more than evolution of rather old ideas. There was no quantum leap from "Web 1.0" to shiny new "Web 2.0". Anyone stating that either lived last ten years in a cave, or deliberately supports the hype.
It's not like I am trying to stand on ideas from Book of Ecclesiastes, but behind every great "breakthrough" there are years (sometimes hundreds or thousands of years) of immense work. Here are few examples: before Tim Bernes-Lee came up with the idea of Web, there was a Project Xanadu. Microsoft did not invent Graphical User Interface, nor did Apple. Instead, over the years, these corporations (and many others) perfected research work of Xerox PARC center, which in turn was based on works by Doug Engelbart. Many physicists go as fa as suggesting that Einstein was not actually the inventor of relativity theories, but successfully re-branded less known theories of Poincare, Lorentz, and Minkowski.
So you see, "Web 2.0" folks, the idea of a mash-up is ages old.
Having said that, I must say that Internet experience is getting better over the years. Just don't hype these improvements as "groundbreaking" and enjoy the ride.
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Submitted by frolov on Mon, 2005-11-21 23:27.
