What’s Ahead For Web 2.0 And Beyond?
The Geogad website has now been updated and is almost, but not quite, ready for prime time. It has been a busy week.
On the flip side, since the website came first, I was not able to attend the Web 2.0 Conference in SF this week. I am sure that I missed a lot. I will have to make due with reading about it. One of the most interesting article is focuses on the conference and on the future of the economy. Basically there are two schools of thought. The first is that the US is going into a housing and credit downturn that will slow or completely stop the economy for month or years. The equally overdone and completely opposite argument is that everything will be fine, especially for the tech-based economy.
It is hard to know which is more overblown. With phrases like “nuclear winter” and “partying like it is 1999″ both making the rounds, it is probably more realistic to steer for something in between.
Another trend that keeps popping up is meetings that talk about how to make a FaceBook app. There seems like there is one of these every month for the last few months. But what is strange is that these meetings are now showing up even more frequently. There was one that I heard about last week. Now I spotted another one that is coming up on May 8. I know that making Facebook Apps are popular, but what is with all of the real world meetings? Doesn’t Facebook have good instructions on their Developer pages? Maybe it is time for someone to spoof creating these apps on YouTube like the “You Suck at Photoshop” guys.
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