Is Web 2.0 a bubble or a revolution?
It seems like "bubble" is getting thrown around way too frequently these days, when a more appropriate word is "revolution." That's what we called it in the early 1980s and late 1990s. There were economic bubbles surrounding both periods, but there is no doubt the personal computer and the Internet caused massive change globally.
I asked Google about this and was told that there are 1.7 million documents for the query web 2.0 bubble and 6.7 million for web 2.0 revolution, so perhaps there is a belief in another revolution?
I then asked Blogpulse and was shown a burst of attention surrounding both bubble and revolution starting at the end of September, the week before the Web 2.0 conference.Unfortunately, it looks like the fear of a bubble has drowned out the hope and perhaps greed for a revolution.
