This site uses google maps to plot useless data about all the "Web 2.0" sites around the web. I especially love that the list of sites is titled "Innovators."

Traverse the list to behold what wonders await you in the new and improved Internet. Or simply visit them and see stuff that people have been talking about for years, and now actually works properly.

I understand the need for labels so that you can sell stuff to the public, and that it denotes a new 'era' in the web, but what bothers me is when people start to believe their own hype and harp on this as if it's some new renaissance of web development that will usher in another golden age and where we can all become startup millionaires.

Isn't that kind of over-hype and wild speculation what caused the first Internet bust?

Enjoy the list, behold the wonders of Web 2.0.

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