I think "web 2.0" should die quickly. Is the new media movement only real if it's called web 2.0? I guess what I'm likely trying to say is I hope the movement lasts longer than it's name.

This is a good time to "reconfigure" approaches. Thinking outside of the box *might* be good. What about making the box longer (add another characteristic to your target)? What about connecting different boxes (combine targets that share something in common)? Offer something your competitor doesn't offer so that you can potentially partner up with them...Don't try something new...Try some 5 different things that will expand your experience. I agree with the idea that this is opportunity knocking..maybe even opportunity overload

Agreed the term Web 2.0 is lame. I even hate social media but can't seem to find a way around it when.

I love your suggestion of connecting different, seemingly disparate boxes as a metaphor for opportunity. I think mobile technology is a great example of this. We all have the experience of using a phone, listening to music, watching vids and now we can experience them in the palm of our hands and not at a static place in our homes or in our office.

I agree with "it's time to think outside the box" and while I'm not sure you all will like the term "Web 3.0" much more than "Web 2.0," I definitely think it's time we start looking at what's to come.

I'm not sure Web 2.0 has even begun to run its course.... There are still many people still coming up on the Internet, eg my mom is still working on email only.
While we early adopters are already exploring what comes next (our Web 2.0 peak was what 18+ months ago)

I'm thinking about what comes next. We have user generated content (blogs, videos, pictures, etc) , and that is increasing in massive amounts. Soo I think what we do with it will be the next generation. I don't see the moniker of Web 3.0 applied, as it doesn't feel the direction that we are going with naming conventions, my bet is that we have a new name that drops web..

anyway lifestreaming, and geo-specific information are where we are now as early adopters.. also the mobile core so oft talked about around yr 2000 is nearly realized in the iPhone and similarly inspired devices.

We have seen the Internet eluded to as a divisive element but it is now shedding that tone and moving to something that is uniting individuals into a spectacular community of global proportions.

As for a name it'll comprise the newer mobile and geo-specific nature and uniting ability.

:-)

@kestrachern I love your line, "...moving to something that is uniting individuals into a spectacular community of global proportions." This makes me want to get out of my chair and dance around the office.

The naming of all "this" that we do is what tickles and annoys me. In my small way, I try and drop the word web and internet and online when at all possible and steer my language towards social tools and social platforms and community but then even the word social seems implied and thus irrelevant. It's like you would never refer to water cooler chats as social media optimization or social networking. It's a freakin' water cooler chat.

Anyway, you should shoot our a kwippy convo stream asking people to come up with a name for the next wave of Web 2.0.

Kwip it up, yo!