2008 The Fall of Web 2.0, ending a bad idea with promise.

Linkbait … not that this page is about linkbaiting or used a linkbaited title. Just that its a great point to start, linkbait. By now you have heard about an Infamous world class linkbaiter who duped the entire world with his amazing stories and fantastic titles. The repercussions are just now becoming apparent. many things were promised by the bright and shiny new web version 2, yet none seem to have ever worked quite right. Many sites had a beautiful picture of presentation but fell sadly short of doing anything close to the promise of web 2.0.

Stop waiting, it’s not going to happen, web two point oh was a flop, an amazing flop. Everyone now expects the next big thing to be what web 20 said it was, yet still relies on the older outdated starters for the future. Sites like Digg.com being the most known, have all but died over the last few months. Playing democracy is fun but actually letting it happen to your business does not work. Hence the recent changes to how so many things online work.

Out with the old in with the new. Many web 2.0 sites jumped on the bandwagon with the rest, wishing for the promise, falling short of the mark. Some kept going, web3.0 as its being called, has been growing without the same visible noise the 2nd generation web seemed to shout gradient and beta its way through. While the technology failed in the last attempt for internet to meet man, it may just achieve a semblance with its next incarnation.

What so new and different about it and why didn’t anyone tell you? Its not really here yet for one and your probably already using it without the catch phrase. yes of course I understand that makes no sense to most of you though its a perfect simple assessment. Web three is more about underlying services online, better integration faster return of data and more intuitive function. To make this a bit simpler to understand and to show off some of the ‘cool new stuff’ I’ll give you a nice list to expand your mind and explain what happened.

Flock Social Browser: Yay another way to use FireFox but pretty. Neat it does like web stuff inside it. Big deal ….??? yes actually.

Flock is another fork in the road of web2.0, this time unlike Chrome coming from just ahead, Flock is reaching forward from behind. By integrating the core of what is considered web 2.0 inside Flock’s software at the core, users can immerse into the web. Services while not seamless are joined into one fluid tool for the trade. From the ashes of FireFox, the undisputed king of web20 browsing, an interesting bird is taking flight. Joining the Flock and gliding into the next generation of web technologies.

Google Chrome Browser: Ok its a browser, you can look at stuff online with it, big deal. Oh its also a threat to Internet Explorer and competition for Firefox, yeah sure. Huge news here right? If you just said wrong, you are.

Lets look deeper into chrome and what it means instead of what it does. Google has a massive set of top notch services, you can do almost anything online with a google service and complete tons of work without expansive software. There is the problem and the answer, its all web based service, no software to install, no product to sell. The problem was no way to be installed on a factor system alone, no control of license even a free set of services to get market share and user base. The answer is Google Chrome, not because it lets you do all of this online but because its designed inside out to do it, even become a symbolic shell for the services.

Google Chrome does not have to compete with other browsers because its not made for browsing, its better at it than most, yet still not meant for that purpose. Chrome is a rapid service delivery platform, a virtual desktop to your online workspace. That is what make it matter, that is web3.0.

Personalized Search: Big brother were we come they are stealing your data!!! No really but hey some think its scary.

As a renowned personalized search expert put it to me “ They already know everything anyone searches, doesn’t make sense to use it.” Yes is the answer, not personalized as it seems on the outside but again something inside the core of search technology in the future. When you search for ‘best steak in town’ if your in Atlanta showing a top Dallas steak house probably wastes your time. By personalizing search they give information based on location, history of content preference and world group dynamics. That gets you local listings for things that should be about where. This gets you less of the sites you wont spend time on, it also lets the search engine naturally rank site based on how popular they are worldwide. Then what happens is without announcing to the seo world or anyone for that matter, results can be based on human concept of relevant instead of technical factors alone.

StumbleUpon: That toolbar site right? The one with thumbs and cool pictures?? Yeah that’s the one, here is why.

StumbleUpon broke the mold once, in web2.0 you did not require something to use a website, yet they did, without the toolbar nothing else would quite work with stumble. This was a step in the protection direction, a smart step because why other social sharing sites were brought to their knees with spam. StumbleUpon was able to control it, every click, every share, every page, every time total and absolute control. Now they have an almost unspoiled human build resource and have dropped the walls. StumbleUpon may just be the first web 30 social site, still to be seen.

Sweetcron: No nothing to do with corn, yes something to do with sweet.

Sweetcron is the first real load and go lifestream system to hit the map. Able to be installed on near any host with nearly any server running by itself organizing your internet life and keeping notes for you. Where services have kept failing a Zlist Janitor has made the breakthrough. Open source open prospect clean simple adaptable life streaming from anything with a feed.

Ubiquity: WTF is Ubiquity ??? Ok if your here you may know, its something for FireFox and has this little window that does stuff. Yet another goofy techno toy right ??? no, something else.

Looking inside the ubiquitous mind frame your find tremendous potential, if it was not for needing keys to talk to your computer Ubiquity could enact your every command. Ubiquity is a human teachable tool to bend the web to your will once your mind knows how it works. Again unlike the web2 movement this web3 technology is quite patient and full of useful promise vs. all bang with no buck. Ubiquity is a cutting edge idea reaching into what will be next.

So as you see you have already without knowing it been right in the middle of web 3.0, either looking at its parts or using its services. Web 3.0 is here today all you have to do is look a bit beyond the nose on web20’s pretty face to see it.

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