Sunday, October 08, 2006

User Content 1.0 vs 2.0 in 2007...

2007 is heading towards us quickly! I'm taking the lead and starting my 2007 predictions with the long tail of user-generated content. Prediction: Articles like this News.com article Death of the free web appear for Web 2.0. I.E. article.replace( 'geocities', 'blogspot' )--my blog excluded of course. I believe there is great content in the internet, but if history does repeat itself, I think the signs are becoming clear: web counters--the rage in 1995, hidden in 2001 and back in force in 2006 (renamed "readers"); blinking text, animated gifs, tiled backgrounds, auto-start music, forever scrolling pages--in 2000 (geocities) and here again today (myspace).

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