Loads of People Are Feeling Web 2.0 Fatigue
Every morning, our RSS newsreader would tell us about a dozen startups that were launched the previous night.
We (bloggers or the early tech adapters) will most often join the mad race to try that “groundbreaking and earth-shattering” product within hours of launch, compare it with existing products and blog that information ASAP with catchy headlines so that our “blog post” gains some visibility in the blogging world.
Some popular veteran bloggers are feeling tired of this massive “Web 2.0 construction boom” - some thoughts:
Steve Rubel is overwhelmed by number of new Web 2.0 companies that spawn each day:
Techcrunch, Scobleizer and Mashable leave me all breathless. It’s like watching the cranes of Dubai rise.
Circa 1998, perhaps when many of you were 10, The Globe.com, GeoCities and Tripod were all the rage. They faded from our horizon over time. The same thing will happen to many of today’s hot sites…
These days, I am far more interested in what people do with technology rather than on what the latest new “shiny object” is.
Dave Slusher dropped some top blog from his daily radar because “he got so tired of hearing about another slightly different way of doing what we were already doing and why that tiny difference was worth dropping everything and moving over.” [hint: Twitter, Pawnce, Jaiku, FaceBook]
People ask me why I’m not on FaceBook since that’s the cool, hot thing. That’s precisely why I am not. I’m not interested in coolness or hotness. I am interested in friends, true friends that matter to me and that miss me when they don’t see me for a long time. I’m uninterested in virtual friends..
Life is short and true friends that will go to the mat for you are scarce. The energy spent in chasing some sort of glorious future from service to service is friction in my life, not any sort of addition.
Jeremy Zawodny has already got off the “Web 2.0 hype treadmill” and feels better after doing so:
I made an conscious decision to drop virtually all “news” sources from my subscription list that felt like breathless hype machines that provided little new insight.
My mental state improved quite a bit after that. I see to many people I know getting caught up in the breathless hype and forgetting to think about whether the latest shiny new thing really matters in the grand scheme of things.
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11 Comments
1.
nitin From 
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awesome video and very informative…grt stuff!!!
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Rajesh From 
(INDIA)
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Well There was time when i used to be part of this mad race now i’m towards Nirvana.. no more follow ups….
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hem From 
(HONG KONG)
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Windows XP on 19. July 2007 at 3:07 pm
Niravna.. I am a fan of Nirvana.. ( kurt)
.. is that the reason u haven’t blogged for so long Rajesh
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Rajesh From 
(INDIA)
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yepp.. u can say so…… there are other reasons also.. now days i’m blogging just to express my self nothing more….
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hem From 
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Sorry Rajesh your comment was blocked by Akismet as a spam i released it now
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Joe Bartender From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Great post and video. It’s all starting to blur together for me. It seems like there are just too many of everything. Lots of noise and not a lot of signal.
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Bryan @ One Mans Goal From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Very true!
However, this isn’t new. The internet has always been about the next “shiny object” that people flock to.
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Don@AffiliateWatcher From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Windows XP on 23. July 2007 at 9:53 am
I’ve been feeling kinda bored with the whole 2.0 movement also. I know it’s suppose to be “about the end user”, but hasn’t it always been about the user experience?
I’ve been on the Internet since 1995 and ever since then it “was about the User experience”.
I think this Web 2.0 is all a bunch of hooey!
Don
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Chamonix From 
(FRANCE)
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I always seem to be 2 steps behind on the web. I hear the expression web 2.0 and then two weeks later people are already bored with it…always playing catch up.
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Faimous From 
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Windows XP on 09. August 2007 at 1:20 pm
Even if the term ‘Web 2.0′ had some value in the early stages, the fact that it’s been used indiscriminately in the media and hyped and blown-up and out of proportion makes it easier for people to have some sort of fatigue. Now every site is touted as Web 2.0, whether or not it adheres to the principles.
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Deborah From 
(UNITED STATES)
Wrote on 31. December 2007 at 7:38 am
Deborah
…Basically put, how long does the support for your new treadmill last?..