Well, I still haven’t been able to track down the “orphaned” version of the Web 2.0 materials that I uploaded to Google Docs a couple days ago; but at least I’ve gotten a polite, inquisitive email from one of the Google tech-support people. Hopefully we’ll be able to figure out what’s going on in the next day or two, and I’ll be able to retrieve — and thus edit, share, and collaborate — this document with everyone else.

Meanwhile, though, lots of stuff has been going on in the Web 2.0 world, and I just can’t sit around and wait for Google to catch up. So I’ve created a new version 38 of the materials, which is available as a 17.4-megabyte PDF file (yes, it’s grown quite a bit in the past 24 hours). To download it, click here.

Here’s what I’ve added to the material:

1. On page 12: I added a bullet point with a link to the Web-based Zoho Spreadsheet product
2. On page 12: I added a bullet point with link to yesterday’s TechCrunch article on ZohoDB
3. On page 63: I added a bullet point with go2web2.0.net’s visual display of all Web 2.0 vendors
4. On page 69: I added bullet point referencing a blog posting on “Will IBM compete with Facebook/Web 2.0?”
5. On page 72: I added “Linkedin” to the list of major social networking services
6. On page 72: I added a link to a recent New Yorker article about in-person networking in a Facebook world.
7. On page 72: I added a link to an article announcing that UC Berkeley will be publishing its lectures on YouTube; also added the same bullet point on (new) page 104, on the page about impact of Web 2.0 on education…
8. On page 78: I added a new slide on technology adoption cycle, based on Geoffrey Moore’s classic book, Crossing the Chasm
9. On page 94: new page with a list of inaccurate predictions — illustrating how hard it is to predict the future of Web 2.0. This is based on material that I first put together several years ago; interestingly, some Google-searching this time around revealed that some of the cited material (e.g., Thomas Watson’s remark that there might only be a world market for five computers, and Bill Gates’ alleged comment that 640K bytes “ought to be enough for anybody”) is now being questioned and challenged. But I also found that one of the citations — from the British Postmaster General in 1895 — could now be confirmed from a historical book that Google has scanned into its system from the University of Michigan library…

That’s it for now. I’ll keep my fingers crossed, and hope that I can incorporate all of this stuff, plus yesterday’s version 37 updates, into the mysteriously-orphaned Google Docs material in the next day or two …