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Web 2.0 Expo this week persuaded that not only was Web 2.0 over, but saying it was over was over. To celebrate other Internet clichés, the 250 — that is to say, the 250 people on the Internet who matter to the 250 — decamped for ROFLcon in Massachusetts. Thank goodness, because some of us had actual work to do. Yahoo showed what it could do with its first-quarter earnings — which is to say, not much more than it had been doing before. Now Yahoos are bracing for more layoffs — when they're taking breaks from stealing credit and stabbing colleagues in the back. Facebookers, meanwhile, buzzed about a rumored feud between founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Moskovitz denied the tiff, but then displayed enough 'tude to explain why even the contentious Zuckerberg might want to stay away. Who wins the dyspeptic crown? Anyone who made it through this week. (Photo by AP/Kevin Sanders)
A week that saw Web 2.0 dethroned
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5:00 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Owen Thomas
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Troll_2.0 wacked it's Ass.
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User contributions run the web 2.0
Remember, Person of the Year 2006: YOU.
Ah yeah, this site is getting to be like the old 9 to 5 at the dogster i've got.
You make is sound really bad. It may not be so, hold tight!
-DH
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The most frustrating thing about the web 2.0 bubble is the number of talented engineers and developers who are/were toiling away building things of no real value.
@colintoal:
I agree. And even worse, for a lot of these engineers there wasn't much in the results either.
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