Basement.org has a refreshing "whoa nellie, this is kind of crap" article on the Web 2.0 hype permeating the Internet, the Valley and (to a lesser extent) Wall Street. Slate also has a "wtfbbq" piece on Web 2.0, which points out that the term is kind of a catch-all for a bunch of stuff, and more or less has little meaning.
The Slate one is on the money... I think the only people who get excited by "Web 2.0" as a term are the people who really have no idea what it means. The guys behind the scenes are just trying to make stuff that uses AJAX, Flash, and whatever else to make apps on the web work more like normal software...
Note: Your browser must have Javascript enabled to submit comments.