WEB 2.O: THE INEVITABLE TROUGH OF DISILLUSIONMENT

Stephen Abram has an interesting illustration on his blog, Stephen’s Lighthouse. It is an innovation curve for Web 2.0. It graphs 2.0 tools from Technology Trigger, to Peak of Inflated Expectations, through the Trough of Disillusionment, on to the Slope of Enlightenment, and finally to the Plateau of Productivity. He took the curve from an article on Web 2.0 Journal, entitled “Is Web 2.0 Entering "The Trough of Disillusionment"?, by Dion Hinchcliffe. Abram ends by asking, “Where are your services on the curve? Which ones are you experimenting with to be read when they ‘take off’?”

URLs:
Abram’s post: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/archives/
2006/04/trends_and_trou.html
Hinchliffe’s article: http://www.web2journal.com/read/172417.htm