Web4.0 is dead

Amongst all the predictions of the death of email (the kids so don't use email any more), the death of Facebook (ditto) and indeed the death of everything else that's wildly and increasingly popular every year, I enjoyed seeing today  that Scott Karp has abandoned Twitter. Does the resulting blogstorm therefore mean that Twitter is the very latest Official ex-Next-Big-Thing? Of course not. Scott's just one guy - one hell of a perceptive guy, admittedly, but as he cheerfully points out in his post his experience isn't the bellwether all Twitter users. Personally I can't find a single use for Twitter, but then I still plan much of my social life via email and phone calls so what do I know?

Still, it seems you can get a long way in tech blogging by being first to call the death of the latest Big Thing, so today I'd just like to be the first to say that web4.0 is totally over. One day that will mean something, and when that day comes around, I hope you all remember you heard it here first.

Comments

[Clara]

Yes, still, even if someone like Scott Karp has stopped using Twitter doesn't mean that Web 4.0 is dead. There are still a ton of people who haven't yet gotten over Web 2.0 and are still trying to figure out how to tap into this kind of technology to benefit their businesses. Not to mention that newspapers are still not dead yet--they've just gone online like everybody else and the larger ones have even added commenting functionality.

[Seamus McCauley]

Hi Clara
I suppose I was mainly joking about web4.0 - though if you known of anyone claiming to know what it is already do point me in their direction!
Cheers
Seamus

[Thoughtplay]

Nice, but you lack the big picture. I pronounce the death of Web/Grid/Net x.y.

[foreigngirl]

haha! I suppose when somebody writes Web 4.0 they should expect that there will be a derth of people who cannot get a joke: "Web 4.0" sounds too serious and absolutely real when so much change is happenning almost each day.

Twitter is pretty boring and cumbersome without the Search function. I don't see any point in adding my friends there for them to see my stupid updates and vice-a-versa, and hence the only use can be receiving updates to my mobile from important web-sites. One useful "twit" I found was the Multimap's twitter, and it's the only thing I am following right now.