After I posted this, I had an email from a guy (Holy cow, I have a reader?!!?) who asked me why I was so down on Web 2.0 when there’s so much cool stuff going on. And, he’s right, there is. No one can argue how “Web 2.0″ technologies and techniques have been used to vastly [...]

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Just read Techcrunch for week and see how many new, VC-backed start-ups are doing what so many other VC-backed start-ups are doing: social-networking, Flash video-sharing, IM, or blogging; throw in a pastel colour pallete, rounded corners and AJAX and make sure your new firm ends with the letter “r” (or should that be “lettr”?), and, Boom!, you have [...]

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Valleywag is reporting that Eric Schmidt is prepping us for the world beyond Web 2.0. Surely, one rapidly inflating bubble is enough for the moment…?

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