{"id":98,"date":"2007-02-19T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visionarymarketing.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/19\/are-there-any-tangible-signs-that-web-20-is-an-other-bubble\/"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:39:18","slug":"are-there-any-tangible-signs-that-web-20-is-an-other-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionarymarketing.com\/en\/2007\/02\/19\/are-there-any-tangible-signs-that-web-20-is-an-other-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there any tangible signs that Web 2.0 is another bubble?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning, the Web 2.0 craze has triggered thoughts by many an observer as to whether the concept was a fad, a bubble or even just a rehash of earlier Internet ideas that failed. As in this recent WSJ article<\/a>, debating this subject is pretty much a matter of ‘yes I’m right’ ‘no, he isn’t!’<\/em><\/p>\n

Are there any tangible signs that Web 2.0 is another bubble?<\/h2>\n
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But another article published by Les Echos <\/em>in Paris on December 18th is more precise about the web2.0 phenomenon. Their headline reads ‘is the golden age of blogs already over?’ and they are fairly pessimistic when they quote a Gartner report and numbers which may hurt a few of us.
\nGartner warns us namely that:<\/p>\n

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  1. only 56 out of a total of 260 million blogs are active<\/li>\n
  2. only 2% of web users are regular contributors to blogs<\/li>\n
  3. the myspace and Facebook social networks respectively lost 4% and 12% of their unique visitors between August and September 2006<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now I won’t comment too much on point 3. August numbers are usually bad and in 2006 I realised that many users had kept out of sight. The other numbers may seem more worrying to some. Below are the references for the Gartner report mentioned by Les Echos<\/em>.<\/p>\n