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Web 2.0 Is Not Dead

Submitted by Dobata from Google Reader

Oct 14, 2008

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I have been unwell, so not as feisty as usual. I didn't rise to the bait when Michael Arrington decided that Web 2.0 is dead because of some vacation Video that Dave Morin and other glitterati created on a recent trip to the Mediterranean. But then Arrington turned his back on the term years ago, even though he was one of the founders of the Web 2.0 Working Group. He's starting to sound like one of those apocalyptic preachers who keep saying that the end is nigh, and then, once the rapture doesn't take place on schedule, moves the deadline back a few months.

Others are involved in the same howling, which just shows that they don't know what Web 2.0 is. They have come to think that it's the ups and downs of startups, or the stomach rumblings of the cool kids, which is just not what's going on, as Tim O'Reilly says here in response to the same 'Web 2.0 is dead' drivel from William Volk:

Twitter / Tim O'Reilly, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

I also think that just as important as 'web as a platform' is the social revolution involved in our use of these tools. W

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Daniel J Pritchett,

Oct 14, 2008

"I also think that just as important as 'web as a platform' is the social revolution involved in our use of these tools. We are changing ourselves and the world. That may slow down a hair because Iceland has closed all its banks, but nothing has 'died', except paper profits in a bunch of hedge funds."