You will find here John Doerr short video on the web2.0 incredible opportunities.
If you watch it, you MUST also real Joel rant which this is a short extract:
I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite.
"That's one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian grandiloquence; the boastfulness; the complete lack of reality. And people buy it! The business press goes wild!"
Now it's tagging and folksonomies and syndication, and we're all supposed to fall in line with the theory that cool new stuff like Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Del.icio.us are somehow bigger than the sum of their parts. The Long Tail! Attention Economy! Creative Commons! Peer production! Web 2.0!
Not only that, the very 2.0 in Web 2.0 seems carefully crafted as a way to denegrate the clueless "Web 1.0" idiots, poor children, in the same way the first round of teenagers starting dotcoms in 1999 dissed their elders with the decade's mantra, "They just don't get it!"
Also David Galbraith on the same page:
Web 2.0 = Dotcombomb 2.0 = Bollocks 2.0
Most of what is 'Web 2.0' is based around ideas of a few people who had to ride out Web 1.0 with no buzz or funding, while people selling fresh mangos online were talking to VCs. This time perhaps the good people, the Evan Williams' Dave Winers' 'Ian Clarke equivalents are in their garretts building the real next generation web. Those people will be beavering away, building instead of talking.
Btw: As I'm focusing on finding out where the beef is, I vote with Joel and David on this on
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