When geeks stop talking about it, it becomes reality
On June 1st, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:
In February 2007 right after lift07 I claimed that web 2.0 was dead.So I admit I was wrong.
I even made the following graphic of it:
I was sure that in my world web 2.0 would be death, because the geeks at the conferences didn't talk about the tools of web 2.0 anymore. They talked about something else.
From experience I have found out that when the geeks stop talking about it, it's when the cash cows are being made, and people can actually start making a living of it.
So web 2.0 didn't die. It became mainstream and reality for a lot of companies and people.
It's really interesting to look back at, and see that in some aspects, I was right... Just take this with you from this blogpost: When geeks stop talking about it, that's when you should set all sails and make a living of the tendencies =) [lift07, business, web-20, geeks, reality, mainstream, cash-cow, tendencies]
Mads writes:
I was right there with you two months later. The proof?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madsknet/465421776/in/set-72157600102544155/
June 2nd, 2008 00:17My reasons were different though. I declared it dead due to the lack of focus on how to do good with it AND make money doing so at the same time. It seemed like geeks were just looking for other peoples cash to burn while having fun. And that I don't like.
Web 2.0 is still struggling though. There still needs to be some looking into how to apply the tools and principles for business use, kind of like the next Google or something like that. Ambitious perhaps, but its a nice one ;-).
Henriette Weber Andersen writes:
rock on ! - I know what you mean. I guess I thought it was too geekhyped as well - and then suddently from shift06 to lift07 - the entire geeklandscape changed.. it was awesome and none of them talked about web 2.0 anymore =)
June 3rd, 2008 03:05