build to burst

this is what i posted on eHub yesterday

recently one can sense a growing fatigue concerning the ill defined area of “web2.0�, the question of its true novelty (semantic web?, read/write web, web applications), a darwinism of business ideas, fear of a bubble 2.0 and the relation to the ethics of the big guys (google, yahoo et. al.) some might remember that it took 5 years for the “web 1.0� to end in the dot.com desaster. this was five years ago. what did we learn? no question about the good ambitions and minimalistic elegance of ehub. run by 2 people, it shows already the great productivity of the social web, and a change in digitial culture which one could also call maturity (see also dave winers critical remarks), and yes, the art of flickr still holds and there is still some trust that even if a social browser is not a socialist browser, this next wave will be not as greedy, stupid and evil as web 1999.