“Web 2.0” is a phrase that’s been around for a few years, but it still has some uncertainty around it. Is it just marketing hype, or does it represent a substantial change in the way companies ...

Just as Web 2.0 brought a kaleidoscope of new opportunities from smartphones to social networks, Web3 is bringing the next wave of tools and innovations. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, ...

Web 2.0 could be a meaningless marketing buzzword. Or it may represent a whole new paradigm for the Internet, one centered on user-generated content that could hasten the death of the newspaper ...

With all the hype surrounding Web 2.0 technologies, serious IT organizations may be tempted to dismiss them as just more consumer-oriented fads. After all, do we really need something like MySpace or ...

Mental models are ways of thinking about or explaining how something works. When you shift a mental model, it can change your way of thinking about a problem. Mental models were introduced to me by ...

Despite growing interest from Web 2.0 companies, the explosion of web3 into the mainstream, combined with the high complexity of the technology, has caught many on the back foot. There has been much ...

Raise the firewalls and batten down the gateways: security risks are rising. Web 2.0 users beware: Social networking technologies may be fun and useful, but the one thing they are not is secure. For ...

Why is collaboration important to Web 2.0? Collaboration and the ability to collaborate — the “architecture of participation,” as some call it — are central to Web 2.0 and intrinsic to the ...

It’s too early to predict all the implications of the recent Ethereum blockchain Merge, but it definitely addresses the most frequent (and valid) criticism of web3 regarding excessive energy ...

There’s nothing left for you in the dead malls of Web 2.0. The era of mass platform-based social media has ended, and any publication still chasing likes and clicks in 2026 is holding the bag. This ...

Web3 entrepreneur, investor, CBDC inventor, and founder of Panther, Bitt, BaseTwo, Fluent and Elemental. Collaborated with UN, MIT and IMF. No one needs to stress the significance of the change from ...