Is Web 2.0 outfashioned ?
It’s fun to read bloggers comment about Web 2.0. The trend seems to be quite critical at the moment. Or has it always been so ?
I read a good parody of Web 2.0 trendsetters in this great post especially : How to be a Silicon Valley Cynic : ” If anyone asks you what it means, mutter something about pastel colors, rounded corners, and Ajax. Smirk while you are doing so, to show that pastel boxes are FUNNY AS HELL, but you’re too cool to smile. (And smiling causes laugh lines that make you look old.)”.
I also enjoyed a lot the article about MySpace : the business of Spam 2.0 refering to the Myspace story (I really believed that Tom was the co-founder… ).
Trent- the author- gets a lot of of violent feedback and comments, although the article is well documented and brilliantly written, as far as I can judge..
Some take side for Trent, though, commenting on the comments, like Opticaldischarge :”I love when people who are commenting on someone else’s intelligence mis-spell “retarDed.” “Retarted,” what is that? Being made a tart again? Usage: “She had left behind promiscuity, but is recently retarted.”
A good reading.
More on Myspace as THE new Spam platform (users creating “promotional profiles”) by Matt, the founder of Wordpress : Myspace Spam.
September 14th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Man, fashion and snobbism are not tech-adverse !
Of course to be hip you have to pretend you know it all and make the other one feel stupid.
Knowledge is key, everybody feels it though very few really have it.
September 14th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Yes. It’s getting hard to stay updated nowadays. That’s why we websites like netvibes to gather all our “survival” information for us to check at a glance. Netvibes is web 2.0 in essence because it relies on an “ecosystem” where users propose tabs, feeds, etc. It is not a community tool in my sense, because we don’t really interact with other users.
But that’s not the question here.
September 15th, 2006 at 12:26 am
I really like Netvibes because you can make it your own while benefit from others. Like adding a skin to winamp
December 11th, 2007 at 3:43 am
I really like that you quoted me; just Googled this shell I use and stumbled in on it. I’m an internet superstar.
As for my siding with Trent - months ago as it was - the people railing against his article were “retarts.” MySpace simply need a lot of user streetsmarts (not clicking crap) and a lot of work on the way it runs when it isn’t broken.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Brilliant comments are the spice of the internet.. It’s just very hard to read all, and sometimes not at all rewarding. I really loved the “retarts”. Let’s pretend you made it into history with my post…