Comments on: Are You Sick Of “Web 2.0″? http://www.suddenlysanfranciscan.org/are-you-sick-of-web-20/ The view from here Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dave http://www.suddenlysanfranciscan.org/are-you-sick-of-web-20/#comment-198 Dave Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:08:09 +0000 http://www.suddenlysanfranciscan.org/?p=273#comment-198 More than anything I hate the tag of "Web 2.0" It's not 2.0 or 1.9 or 2.1 it's just people creating more interesting / compelling websites using available technology. Of course the valuations of some of this companies being banded around just reminds me of .com, the lessons of the past are quickly forgotten. More than anything I hate the tag of “Web 2.0″ It’s not 2.0 or 1.9 or 2.1 it’s just people creating more interesting / compelling websites using available technology.

Of course the valuations of some of this companies being banded around just reminds me of .com, the lessons of the past are quickly forgotten.

]]> By: Charles http://www.suddenlysanfranciscan.org/are-you-sick-of-web-20/#comment-193 Charles Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:58:17 +0000 http://www.suddenlysanfranciscan.org/?p=273#comment-193 On the whole I find Facebook very useful. It's helped me find two friends that it otherwise would have been harder to do so. Recently I had an unanticipated rendezvous in Chamonix purely from noticing the Facebook status of one of my friends (an old colleague of ours). Having said that, it does get tedious at times and I think that there is occasionally a danger of ambience overload. I don't use twitter as a character limit that is lower than SMS inevitably leads to a surplus of tweets and a shortage of content. The truth is that most people's day to day is pretty dull and repetitive. Also their insights are often not that interesting or even insightful. I admit that it became a friction point in my relationship on more than one occasion but in truth it was other only a hook to hang an argument on so Facebook per se wasn't to blame. Still, a few days of rest wont do any harm at all. On the whole I find Facebook very useful. It’s helped me find two friends that it otherwise would have been harder to do so. Recently I had an unanticipated rendezvous in Chamonix purely from noticing the Facebook status of one of my friends (an old colleague of ours). Having said that, it does get tedious at times and I think that there is occasionally a danger of ambience overload. I don’t use twitter as a character limit that is lower than SMS inevitably leads to a surplus of tweets and a shortage of content. The truth is that most people’s day to day is pretty dull and repetitive. Also their insights are often not that interesting or even insightful.
I admit that it became a friction point in my relationship on more than one occasion but in truth it was other only a hook to hang an argument on so Facebook per se wasn’t to blame.
Still, a few days of rest wont do any harm at all.

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