I’ve created yet another new version of my Web 2.0 mind-map; you can download the PDF file (a whopping 6.9 megabytes this time) by surfing over to the www.yourdon.com/downloads area of my website, or by clicking here.

I’ve added several new items to the previous version of the mind-map:

1. I added a link to a wonderful blog posting entitled “Google, A Girl, and the Coming Apocalypse,” as an example of the impact of a generation of tech-savvy users in the social/cultural branch of the “Trends” page of the mind-map.
2. I found a recent blog posting from Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, in which he remarks that while we grown-up techies often ooh and ahhh about the sexy features of the latest PC (or the latest Sun server, as the case may be), it’s instructive to see what happens if you ask a teenager whether he/she would like to have a new top-of-the-line PC, or a new top-of-the-line cell phone. I stuck a link to this blog entry in a new sub-branch entitled “Death of the PC?”, part of the “Technical” branch on the “Trends” page of the mind-map.
3. I added a link to a blog posting from Charlie Bess, in EDS’s “Next Big Thing” blog, commenting on the need for developing new techniques and technologies for dealing with the limited attention span of the typical end-user, in the face of information overload and constant interruptions in today’s work/life environment.
4. This led me to track down Linda Stone’s wiki on the concept of “continuous partial attention,” which characterizes how many of us behave in today’s Web 2.0 world, and which many of us find is getting out of control. I added this as a sub-sub-branch of the “dealing with limited attention span” sub-branch, which is part of the “new UI” sub-branch of the “Technical” branch, on the “Trends” page of the mind-map.
5. I added an interesting blog posting by Phil Wainewright (written in November 2005) about his vision of what we should expect from Web 3.0. This was attached as a sub-branch of the “What’s Next: Web 3.0″ branch on the “Trends” page of the mind-map.
6. I added a link to an article describing Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of Web 3.0, which is based on the notion of the “semantic Web.” This is a sub-branch of the “What’s next: Web 3.0″ branch in the “Trends” page of the mind-map.
7. I added a link to a heavily-visited blog entry suggesting that if Web 3.0 is characterized by the semantic web, we might see the evolution of “Wikipedia 3.0,” which would mark the end of Google. This is also a sub-branch of the “What’s next: Web 3.0″ branch in the “Trends” page of the mind-map.
8. I added a link to a 24-minute video documentary in which 13 Web 2.0 startup CEO’s discussing what they think Web 2.0 is all about, and addressing such questions as: are we in a bubble? What are the business models that will work on the web today? What is the role of publishers in a user generated world? And how important and how big is the early adopter crowd? All of this went into a new sub-branch of the “Definitions: what is Web 2.0?” branch, on the “Introduction” page of the mind-map. While I was at it, I reorganized some of the other sub-branches in that “Definitions” branch, to consolidate three different sets of definitions from Tim O’Reilly.
9. I added a link to a recent survey on the “state of the blogosphere,” indicating that, as of July 2006, approximately two new blogs are being created each second, and that it has been doubling in size every 6 months for the past three years, with 1.6 million postings per day (double last year’s volume). This was added to a sub-branch about blogs and wikis, on a branch titled “architecture of consumption vs. creation,” on the “Basic Themes” page of the mind-map.
10. I added a link to a blog posting describing the “5 power rules” of Web 2.0, arguing that the familiar 80-20 Pareto Principle will doom most Web 2.0 startups to failure and oblivion. This is part of a new sub-branch on the “danger of ‘over-hyping’ branch on the “Introduction” page of the mind-map.