Web 2.0 is starting to repeat it self over and over.
Social networking, Ajax, IM, video, podcasts, RSS, all the mambo jambo technologies that gave the Internet a new boost are beeing used over and over again in ideas that are suposed to be new and one question now remains: Web 3.0? What will it be? A new set of tecnologies? An integration of all 2.0 gizmos in one? Will it become more or less OS dependent now that Vista is almost among us and Linux is getting terrain in the Desktop?
And how can an idea sell without making money from advertising? We’re getting almost everything for free, and our brains trained to ignore the ads being shown. What other ways can be used to pay the services we’re using besides “real money”? We’ve skipped the age of the popup and now we almost skipping the need of ad blockers, in fact we welcome them in a simbiotic way, it’s there because they pay the service you are using, but you’re not forced to look at it or even click it.
And the services provided? Do I really need 300 IM apps? 50 different photo galleries? I know, the more the better, more choice, but the net is getting saturated with millions of sites that provide the same things.
Things are going to change for sure, until then, initiatives like LIFT are welcomed and it would be nice to see something like it in Portugal.
[tags]Web 2.0, Web 3.0, ideas, LIFT[/tags]
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