Comments on: If I were versioning the web … http://huddledmasses.org/if-i-were-versioning-the-web/ You can do more than breathe for free... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:31:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Richard in Asia http://huddledmasses.org/if-i-were-versioning-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-142986 Richard in Asia Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:06:19 +0000 http://HuddledMasses.org/if-i-were-versioning-the-web/#comment-142986 Hear, hear! Nice idea this, bring a social aspect to the web....Or is it? Maybe, just maybe we should be somehow tearing ourselves away from the screen to spend social time face to face with people? Another issue altogether, yes. I do have to say that without the 'information superhighway' I'd be lost and out of touch with all my friends and family back in the states... Okay, back to the focus. While I like the fact that people are experimenting, I do have to say that 97% of every "Web 2.0" service I read about seems to fit a niche of less than a thousand people - which of course reduces it's functionality to .... well, a very low level. And I fully agree that this is sillyness/madness/nonsense to use a new version marker for it all! But *sigh* I also fear we'll be seeing "Web 2.0" for a long, long time to come. Sign me on to the 'annoyed/mildly disgusted' bandwagon here. Hear, hear! Nice idea this, bring a social aspect to the web….Or is it? Maybe, just maybe we should be somehow tearing ourselves away from the screen to spend social time face to face with people? Another issue altogether, yes. I do have to say that without the ‘information superhighway’ I’d be lost and out of touch with all my friends and family back in the states…

Okay, back to the focus. While I like the fact that people are experimenting, I do have to say that 97% of every “Web 2.0” service I read about seems to fit a niche of less than a thousand people – which of course reduces it’s functionality to …. well, a very low level. And I fully agree that this is sillyness/madness/nonsense to use a new version marker for it all! But sigh I also fear we’ll be seeing “Web 2.0” for a long, long time to come. Sign me on to the ‘annoyed/mildly disgusted’ bandwagon here.

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