Web 2.0 Hype, interesting scenario...
 

Here is where the spinners bedazzle the easily confused. Consider this scenario:

Steven, a young web wiz, has just celebrated his bar mitzvah. He received a dozen gifts and must write a dozen thank-you notes. Being webbish, he creates an on-line hahaha8220;Thank-You Note Generator.hahaha8221; Steven shows the site to his friends, who show it to their friends, and soon the site is getting traffic from recipients of all sorts of gifts, not just bar mitzvah stuff.

If Steven created the site with CGI and Perl and used tables for layout, this is the story of a boy who made a website for his own amusement, perhaps gaining social points in the process. He might even contribute to a SXSW Interactive panel.

But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim Ohahaha8217;Reilly will beg him to keynote.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0

That is the best article I have read in a long time, this Web 2.0 shit is seriously overrated, yes yo uhave some good things coming out of it but alot of people are going to lose alot of money when the second bubble busts. Especially those who hold Google stock.

Most of the Web2.0 companies have had crumbs spent on them compared to what happened in the late 90s.

Yahoo! wouldn't pay millions for something like that, but he might get some venture funding from Sequoia :)

Web2 hype
 

Of course, the 'web2.0' word just another good reason to find investors with bigger pockets to support your ideas, company or life.

There is nothing happened in a technology terminus in the past 6 years on the internet.

What is happened, some company, like Google began to use these oldschool technologies what nobody else tried to use on mainstream sites before (like the highest hyped ajax) - and the small fishes swim after the Big Fish.

The hype is just the waves what the small fishes generates while they swim after the Big One.

Anyway, you can use some useful words, like:

- SOA
- Simplicity
- Easy-to-learn
- User Friendly (this is an old survivor)

If you design your WebApps on this way you will do something what will be more pleasure to much more people like if you swimming to backwards.

actually, a thank you note generator would be great to have.