It is safe now to say that "Web 2.0" is dead. The evidence is irrefutable and it exposes the twin fallacies the concept of Web 2.0 has depended upon: 1) that people can build their worlds around - indeed, will want to build their worlds around - social networking; and 2) that social networking offers a viable, massively scalable business model. Full Story »
Posted by Jim Wilkerson
I think the author spends too much time talking about a few people he knows who use Facebook, and could be mistaking that for real data. I think the author also errs by making overly broad statements, like that Web 2.0 sites cannot maintain thei focus. Instead, a bigger issue may be that Web 2.0 isn't what people expected it to be, and this author is holding sites like Facebook and Flickr to the standards set a few years ago of what social networking sits could be. By focusing on that, I think he misses what they have become.
Well written for what it is: an opinion. But many/most of the statistics from which the writer's opinion is drawn are feeble and far from scientific. A statement like "Kids are turning off to Facebook." based on the the experience of his son and a straw poll of 15 of his friends while slightly interesting, are hardly theorems from which Zuckerburg will be making strategic plans.
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