The e-Business Handbook

BURSTING THE CYNIC BUBBLE

WEB 2.

17 June 2009

0: DOUBLE TROUBLE?

Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0... ask a hundred different people what it’s all about and you’ll get a hundred different answers. For a real sense of just how confusing things can get, some commentators are already talking about Web 3.0, which could leave the cynicallyminded thinking that we’re merely floating through the next big bubble. Given Google’s off-the-planet value, Microsoft’s recent rush to get a little piece of Facebook and Yahoo, and Google’s seeming trump card in the form of its OpenSocial platform for developing applications, it’s hard to know whether we’re on the cusp of the real Next Big Thing or someone’s going to come along and stick a pin in it all...

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