Web 2.0 is the thing going on right now on the web and everytbody is asking, “what the heck is it?”, so Jeff Zeldman has put together a nice comparison between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0: Clearly “Web 2.0″ means different things to different journalists on different days. Mostly it means nothing—except a bigger paycheck. But let’s simplify what The Economist is saying: Web 1.0: AOL buys Time Warner. Web 2.0: Google buys YouTube. Put another way: Web 1.0: New media company buys old media company. Web 2.0: New media company buys new media company. If we’re stuck with this meaningless Web 2.0 label, let’s at least have some fun with it. Here’s my new game. I’ll start, you finish: Web 1.0: Joshua Davis on the cover of Art News. Web 2.0: 37signals on the cover of Forbes. Web 1.0: Users create the content (Slashdot). Web 2.0: Users create the content (Flickr). Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities. Web 2.0: Crap sites on MySpace. Web 1.0: Writing. Web 2.0: Rating. Web 1.0: Karma Points. Web 2.0: Diggs. Web 1.0: Cool Site of the Day. Web 2.0: Technorati.com. Web 1.0: Tags. Web 2.0: “Tags.” Web 1.0: Bookmarking. Web 2.0: Bookmark sharing. Web 1.0: Pointless Flash widgets. Web 2.0: Pointless “Ajax” widgets. And the commenters go on: Web 1.0: 12px h2 Web 2.0: 51px h2 Web 1.0: Animated gif Web 2.0: Badges Web 1.0: Arial Web 2.0: Arial Rounded/Georgia Web 1.0: Bloated Table Code Web 2.0: Divitis Web 1.0 : Deserted blogs on Blogger Web 2.0 : Deserted blogs on WordPress Web 1.0 : The past Web 2.0 : The present Web 3.0 : The future Web 1.0: “Under Construction” Web 2.0: “Beta” So are you Web 2.0 or still Web 1.0?