Zoho, Blogger, Wufoo, Rollyo, wiki ... even Google. It's starting to sound like a Dr Seuss book. Maybe that should be a Weird Name category in the next Web 2.0 awards? Either that or one for the most useless Web 2.0 waste of time site? Just kidding folks, I really like most of this Web 2.0 stuff - but honestly - have you looked at some of the award winners. If those sites won, what the heck must the rest of them been like. Yikes ...
That said, at first wade through Wufoo does look interesting and possibly useful. If you want to set up a database and categorise your CDs or knitting patterns or dinky toys ... which may not be such a bad thing if you have to spend longer than 5 minutes trying to find your copy of Rust Never Sleeps and you're the sort of person that likes categorising things ... like a librarian? I will have a bigger play with it one day and see whether the proof is in the pudding ... whatever that means.
But it is all a way of just sucking your further and further into The Machine? To use a lot of the most interesting/useful/less naff Web 2.0 stuff, you suddenly find you need a better computer, broadband, a webcam, a new MP3 player (that one's sorted!), a new graphics card, etc etc etc ...
One day, will we all wake up and find some ghastly megalomaniac is behind it all?
Or maybe one day, the internet will implode upon itself due to a surfeit of online image generators and the world will go back to the way it was before and we'll all walk around saying "Do you remember the World Wide Web?"
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I'm betting on the internet imploding, and getting to tell my kids "Well, once there was this thing called the interweb" :)
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