Taken from an article at CNN.com

100 million websites on the world wide web. Simply amazing. Oh sure, I could easily go on an "I remember when" tirade: configuring my Trumpet Winsock, surfing on my text-only lynx browser, using Gopher to search, chatting with the other 12 people on the net over IRC, email that took as long as an 1887 Pony Express rider on my 9600 baud modem...but I won't.

I agree with CNN, it's a milestone. The question is: where is your site? Do you have one?

If not, let's make it 100,000,001.

Well, let's compare it to Web1.0.

Or maybe discuss what it's not.

It might help to see all the Web2.0 sites out there.

Perhaps the Geek Overlords can shed some light.

Seriously...the Web2.0 buzz is spreading like a virus in a Cambodian chicken coop. And, my friends, that's all it is: buzz. hype. again.

Is it another bubble? Perhaps. I personally think it's great, not just that it brings me business but that it also shows the resiliency of the internet—the Web1.0 eCommerce caused a huge bubble that burst, and from the ashes has come the service-oriented web that's causing another bubble. When it bursts, what will Web3.0 bring us? There's already speculation by the marketing types.

The actuality is: it's no longer about how we can take peoples money by selling them stuff they don't need and in a method that isn't any better than walking into a store (yeah, that blast was pets.com inspired). It's all about what the web can do for people, how it can enrich their lives. Sure not all of them are free but Google, Flickr, Blogger, YouTube, MySpace, Del.icio.us...when was the last time you paid them a dime?

So, from my angle, Web2.0 is about providing a service to users and a method for turning all of this information on the web into a free market of knowledge. 

It's only fitting we give this renaissance a new version number.

My cheesy title aside, Bla.st is another one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of-that models that is simplistic but makes sense from a revenue-generating standpoint.

Basically, you create and upload a logo (270x165) and pay so much money to have it placed higher than the other logos. As of this posting, I currently have the #1 spot—cost me $35 but hey I’m an early adopter and if this thing takes off...I’ll always have October 27, 2006 as my 15 minutes of Bla.st fame.

Of course, if it doesn’t take off...I’ve never heard of this bla.st website—somebody hacked my paypal, ripped me off for $35 and made this post. For shame!