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Sunday, May 06, 2007
Anecdote: The all-explaining '2.0'
I'm not a fan of the '2.0' label added to almost anything that's newer/different than the old stuff. I have way easier to understand such a label put on things that are really different on a technical level, but in this case it's added to behavior and perception. Why? Because 2.0-type services existed long before the 2.0 term did. There's maybe a more structured approach to it now, by using Ruby on Rails, Ajax etc, but that's it.
Here are some examples of over-use, still not un-interesting per se:
Trip Hawkins 'invents' Mobile Game 2.0
Recap of Mobile Business 2.0
Except the now well-known descriptions of 2.0 (user-generated content, web applications etc), there's another (my own): 'We are talking real useful services now, but we still don't know how to make money from them, except by being acquired or publishing ads.'
Maybe with 3.0 we'll have an answer to the money issue too.
Here are some examples of over-use, still not un-interesting per se:
Trip Hawkins 'invents' Mobile Game 2.0
Recap of Mobile Business 2.0
Except the now well-known descriptions of 2.0 (user-generated content, web applications etc), there's another (my own): 'We are talking real useful services now, but we still don't know how to make money from them, except by being acquired or publishing ads.'
Maybe with 3.0 we'll have an answer to the money issue too.
