Concept 2.0

WordPress 2.1 is now out in final code format - it's the start of a new stream of product releases with a good handful of new features and more importantly it's not a bugfix on the old one so you don't have to rush to upgrade straight away to keep the hackers out of your box.

While I'm constantly reading about the dozens of web 2.0 social networking sites that launch daily, I rarely hear about them closing down and just generally crashing and burning unless it's major news. But are they are still going? There are so many launched I wouldn't have thought so.

So I think it would be quite interesting to see the failure rates of these sites. I'm almost tempted to set up a site monitoring them to see how long they last.

I was watching some pointless show at like 4am the other day which involved people who wanted to find dates going on this show and you could phone and text in and speak to them and they could communicate with you back. In between this the presenters talked to the various people looking for dates.

One thing got me thinking about this - this reaks of Web 2.0. But on TV.

After all, who is to say this new user-based community orientated  thinking should be confined to the web? TV has recently seen a massive rise in interactivity, with digital bringing loads of extra content to TV channels, Tivo is putting the user in control and while phone in votes are nothing new, they have seen a massive rise in recent times.

Take for example music channels too. These are almost exclusively controlled by viewers who send in their song requests by texts and the videos played are (presumably) those selected by the people viewing the channel - i.e. the users. Indeed, these types of things were around before the Web 2.0 buzz so perhaps TV 2.0 was the original revolution.