So 2005 was the year when the Web 2.0 hype climaxed.
Following, there has been quite some cynism & “hate” coming in especially recently, too. Also all that made for example Richard MacManus, author of Read/WriteWeb, decide to not get involved in the discussion about the term Web 2.0 itself anymore.
He basically says this discussion would be merely useless and not really progressive. Mainly since the discussions around Web 2.0 are at least supposed to be in fact all about the ongoing developments concerning the web and not about arguing, ’cause of definitions for a term describing them. Well, I agree with him on that point, though I think it’s good an overall term exists at all (may the term itself be badly chosen, misleading and whatsoever).
So also the more general public (finally) starts to catch up with the term Web 2.0 and it’s beginning to get an idea + opinions about. Consequently I think it could be useful to stick to the term so to speak nevertheless.
BTW, there is a post about the “Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005″ by Mr. MacManus and a post by Dion Hinchecliffe about “The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005″.
