well, i think you need to look at things this way:<p>a) A big trend emerges, it's the cutting edge. All new. aka Web 2.0 three years ago. It brings about new philosophies, cost structures, ways to communicate,etc. An entire culture thrives around it, tons of money is poured in, and we find out what works via trial+error.
b) This trend eventually normalizes and becomes "standard". Everything we learned via this trial and error, becomes part of all products. Social networking is becoming less and less a "site" as it is becoming an integrated feature of existing properties. It's also influencing the way startups are run and built. Think about it, the trends + technology in the past 3 years, have made it possible for things like YC to exist (OS software, low cost requirements, ease of distribution, distributed teams,etc.)<p>So in short, not it's not over, it's just becoming assimilated into everything.
Are you f<i></i>king kidding me? Web 2.0 just mean the web is starting to work right.<p>Seriously, Web 1.0 isn't over. Step out of the reality distortion field. Nowbody outside of digg/reddit/news.y/oreilly knows what the heck the web really is let alone web 2.0. Just make good stuff. That never goes out of style...
Well, I'm not fond of the term Web 2.0 as you can see from an article I wrote.
<a href="http://duffsdevice.blogspot.com/2008/01/from-web-20-to-web-30.html" rel="nofollow">http://duffsdevice.blogspot.com/2008/01/from-web-20-to-web-3...</a><p>Web 2.0 is over when this bubble pops. Web 3.0 starts with the next bubble.