I don’t claim to be a Web2.0 expert, no-one can, it’s bigger than all of us. However, I read a lot of really good posts on topic and some really, really bad ones so I thought I’d just give you an utterance of my strange sense of humour. Let’s leave aside artificial intelligence (my favourite), social, geo spacial, semantic, global database etc as the common Web3.0 themes. These will be fodder for another post. Web 3.0 will probably be real and alive when Web2.o companies:
- have a bookmark or feed icon that get’s real and has authenticity. I’m coining it the “bagg it” icon.
- realise AJAX isn’t just used for nice drag and drop features. They will actually start using it to move data quickly to give the user the experience of “software like” speed.
- connect their Web 2.0 application to other Web 2.0 applications and maybe even build an API for their zoodowhatifokofumofu.com application.
- have more paying customers than tech awards.
- design their UI’s to allow for old fashioned anti-mouse keyboard users! (me!)
- start caring about the handicapped user again when they design their UI’s.
- stop using every available soft shade of “pastel” in photoshop for their UI design (Doh! Sorry pastel is not a colour). Disclaimer: I’m colour blind as a bat like millions of males out there and dislike web2.0 colours.
- have business models not dependent on Google Adwords.
- will have been recession proofed by the one we are about to have that you don’t know about yet!!!
- won’t take money from hedge funds for fear they might not be around to help them IPO their Web3.0 app.
