Perhaps a little extreme, yet there are still some strong points being brought up here. Are we getting ahead of ourselves here in consideration to this whole Web 2.0 thing?

“Web 2.0″ is a promising idea–and there are plenty of sites that reflect its innovations in this issue’s cover story, “New, Improved Web.” But you know what I want to see this “new” Web deliver to prove the brilliance of the concept? Fixes for what Web 1.0 keeps doing wrong.

I’m tired of lame sites that force me to do their bidding in some particular, arbitrary style. Now that programmers can deploy powerful, fast-working magic to make sites more interactive, let’s see them use new techniques–or hey, even old ones–to solve problems that have been around since the dawn of the Web. In 2006, well-behaved sites should: [Read the rest]