2006 - The Year That Web 2.0 Broke

Yes, in my opinion, 2006 is the year that Web 2.0 broke - i.e. hit the mainstream. For me, the most pleasant Web 2.0 surprise has been last.fm. I’ve always been into music, mostly the alternative/indie kind, ideally fronted by women singers. After all, I used to front a band myself! Through last.fm I’m gradually expanding my music knowledge base, though I mainly concentrate on contemporary British bands (tip: The Long Blondes from Sheffield). Great stuff :D

Today I finally signed up with delicious. I’ve been discussing signing up to Web 2.0 sites elsewhere (heading: Is there a Point in Signing up to MySpace?) and the bottom line is this: I don’t really think I need to participate in all the big social networking sites. E.g. I do have a digg, youtube, and flickr - account [can't be arsed to put all the links in..] and a fair few more, but don’t really use those all that much. Hence, I’m probably never going to sign up to MySpace and Beebo etc. etc. - don’t think there’s a point.

What I will do however is provide a link and bookmark it myself, with ‘The new 100 most useful sites‘ as per Guardian Technology guys, and they should know.

The second link I’m providing is a huge collection of web 2.0 resources. I haven’t looked at these in detail but the purpose, similar to the link above, is to provide something to bookmark/put into delicious and read later :P

To conclude, 2006 for me is the year that web 2.0 broke. Let’s see what happens in 2007 - experts think that blogging for example is going to peak in the new year. We’ll see..

One Response to “2006 - The Year That Web 2.0 Broke”

  1. for sure, it will be really exciting to see new concepts. Different hyprids of of all these services.

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