It seems you can’t open a web browser these days or visit a marketing industry blog with out running quickly into Web 2.0. The more I see term used, the more I get confused about what it really is, such is the signature of any truly great buzzword I suppose!

That being said I set out to get to the bottom of this whole web 2.0 thing for once and all. Here are 6 things that I have come up with (before I got board with the idea, and started feeling guilty about not doing something more useful) to help me try and understand:

I guess I should have attended the Web 2.0 Conference if I really wanted to know.

If it’s in the Wikipedia then Web 2.0 must be real!

Who else but Oreilly could have coined such a phrase?

Wondering if your website is Web 2.0 valid? Check the Web 2.0 Validator!
http://web2.0validator.com/
(I love the URL, even if it is really just link bait, it’s so…. well… Web 2.0)

If it’s not in the Complete Web 2.0 directory, then it’s not Web 2.0!
(this site crashed Firefox for me!)

After all that I have learned that maybe I should forget all about this Web 2.0 mumbo jumbo and move on to Web 3.0 if I really want to get a jump on the competition.

http://www.google.com/search?q=web+3.0
(as of 11/26/06 the query web 3.0 already has 172,000,000 results in Google. WOW!)

Web 4.0 anyone? Who’s in?

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