Of second versions and dead horses
Just the other day I tweeted, asking what 2.0 has ever done for you. And Steve Rhode (Bless him, he is the reason I really got into Twitter, it’s too bad his money advice doesn’t really apply to me. I’m a poor student, I just try to not spend money I don’t have!) replied saying he didn’t even know what it was.
Now allow me to exhume an equestrian corpse and just start beating it. “Web 2.0″ means different things to different people. To graphic designers it means rounded corners, gradients and pastel colors. To web app builders it means “social” elements, AJAX and public APIs. To businessmen it means ad revenue and user generated-content.
Can we just stop using this stupid buzzword now? The web now is just the logical evolution of eveything that happened. I suppose that technically could be called “2.0″, but that seems rather arbitrary. And the fact that no one seems to agree on its meaning or implementation doesn’t help it either.
That is not to say I don’t like this new “generation” of web apps. Facebook is amazing, Twitter is great and I couldn’t live without Wikipedia. It’s just the need that people have to box everything into a certain category that annoys me.
Ok, I’ll clean up the damn mess. How was I supposed to know there’d still be this many… fluids?