Richard Shaw wrote a piece titled Web 2.0? It doesn’t exist and a lot of people have been saying he’s right. Richard McManus, a writer whom I really enjoy, went so far as saying Web 2.0 is dead. R.I.P. Dave Winer chimed in and it’s on the front page of Memeorandum.
Thankfully, Michael Arrington came to our defense. Web 2.0 is a great term. Sure it’s used by the marketing guys, sure it’s a nebulous, amorphous term, but it’s our term, and it’s a great way to represent all the new, great stuff that’s changing the web. We really are shifting the entire paradigm that is web development. Perhaps VCs are pouring a lot of money into these companies and creating “Bubble 2.0″ but that doesn’t change the fact that huge things are happening.
The web is really exciting again, money is pouring in, products like AJAX, Flex and Lazlo are brining a new level of sophistication to the web and talented companies are taking advantage it by creating really amazing products. Is the definition of Web 2.0 hard to “pin down”, sure, but what’s happening is hard to pin down. Embrace that innovative spirit, create something awesome, and call it Web 2.0, that’s what this is about. Rally the troops.
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