Am I Famous Now…

Work obligation and the still not solved problem to add (at least) 4 more hours to the regular cycle AKA day, have kept me out of blogland in the last weeks.
Once 400 feeds and the feed reader permanently open in a third screen, last weeks around 10 blogs daily, mainly blogs of friends.
A huge difference. A dream, an oases of peace.

An echo chamber free life.

It was an enjoyable and relaxed period.
Selective reading compared to the obligation of knowing what was going on… and reading everything at least 80 times.
Bored of Digg and all the blog entries about Digg.
Bored of A-Listers and their grudges.
Bored of over hyped authors who don’t tell much more than common sense.

It was a coincidence. Being busy and drained too. Not burnt out, just *yawned*.
Informational overload, but nothing new. The blogosphere going more and more main stream. Old Media venturing online and a further myspacification/youtubification of the internet.

And then there were more social networks.
And a blog getting a big head CEO.
And twitter.
And the Twitterloo.

All good old Web2.0

Time to say goodbye now and kick off Web3.0.
Good old BE Jeff disagrees with me, he thinks it’s too early for Web3.0, but for a thinker I already am too late.

I wonder if there actually is a thing I haven’t seen yet online.
In 1999 I already planned a virtual 3D shopping center with a (now tax convicted) German partner. Since that day nothing has really amazed me.

Web 3.0 won’t be a revolution. Web2.0 wasn’t either. But Web4.0 will.
Web4.0 will take the internet offline. To your desktop.
To your breakfast table, a table serving as computer with touch screen and a reserved area for your plate, a non-computer area. Your hard drive will be online.

Concepts and numbers will be mashed up.
Numbers make no sense anymore. Was it 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0?
Lets just ditch web2.0, web3.0, web4.0 and any further future web generation naming convention for the web.

The internet, or web, will further evolve. Even without numbers.
An eternal Beta state. Or Gamma.
Maybe we should consider renaming our cars too. What about BMW Z4 Beta?

Me, I think I still prefer being an alpha male. An Alpha Plus 2.0.

Update : Om Malik today has a similar entry.