The chatter is shifting from “Bubble 2.0″ to “No 2.0″ as some people rebel against the idea that everything new and wonderful online right now can be tucked neatly into what started as a marketing slogan.
Quit with the Web 2.0 Silliness: Brady Joslin protests, “Calling a site or company Web 2.0 lacks value in its meaning.”
Web 2.0? It doesn’t exist: Or so argues Russell Shaw: “Well, Web 2.0 is bunk. Not that the elements of this rebirth aren’t there. … It’s just that they cannot be classified under a common umbrella.”
Web 2.0 is dead. R.I.P.: Richard MacManus, who blogs about Web 2.0, is writing a book about Web 2.0. for O’Reilly and is part of the Web 2.0 Workgroup: “The term ‘Web 2.0′ is distracting from the real value going on in the Web right now.”
Yes, Virginia, there is a Web 2.0: Rex Hammock nails it with a parody that works especially well this time of year: “Not believe in Web 2.0! You might as well not believe in fairies! … So what if nobody can actually explain Web 2.0 without using techno babble and business buzzwords? That is no sign that there is no Web 2.0. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see — and that’s why they develop buzzwords.”
Of course, it all has a sense of parody.
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