My new book on Web 2.0, which comes out later this month, concludes with a brief review of the prospects of us entering a second Internet stocks bubble. Although somewhat forgotten now (eight years is an eon in computing), the original concept of Web 2.0 emerged out of the dot-com crash that followed the Internet bubble of the late 1990s. With the Facebook flotation and recent purchase of Instagram this has become a topical issue, and I was interested to read a piece on GigaOm which reviews the evidence for and against.
Tags: bubble 2.0, GigaOm, Web 2.0
Tech Lunch 
May 8, 2012 at 9:42 pm |
Lets not forget even the BBC is talking about HTML5, a key component of building a nice web 2.0 GUI