Web 2.0 Summit conclusion.

The Web 2.0 Summit is now over. We will not get back into the stale debate of “what is Web 2.0″. One thing for sure is the implication of new media and social media in the web world and especially the way information is driven into these media. This is where the summit reached a stepping stone.

Content is King! One of Web 2.0′s pillars was this content. Anybody, anyhow, anyway could put content online. Be it verified or not. In Mauritius for example, Defi Media Group’s online newspaper is becoming one of the most hated scandal magazine while driving a lot of traffic through the buzz it is generating. Info is given by non-reporters and this is absorbed by the search robots and re-digested by other social media tools.

People are now bloating on an over consumption of content as well as an overwhelming amount of information. Information overdrive is becoming a problem because there is too much of it. Unverified data carries on living over the web which is quite democratic in the sense that anybody can put anykind of information online. The other drawback is the high frequency at which the data is renewed or updated.

The major inconvenience of the web, participants admitted, is the excess of unnecessary information. Ways to filter this information are practically non-existent. David Marks stated that information sources will evolve and will themselves get interactive instead of only having media sending out new information on the fly.

Will it really be, as someone humourously said during the conference, that Web 3.0 will be the cleaning of all the mess left around by Web 2.0? This might be a new niche to explore.