Web 2.0 and the Social Web are really about relationships. So to ID whether a new technology will stick around or fizzle away, ask these questions:

1. Does it enable new ways of connecting people?

2. Is it easy to signup?

3. Does it move power from the establishment to the people?

4. Can the community that uses it create enough content to feed itself?

5. Is the platform open source or open to partnerships?

If it fosters a new way to create new relationships in a new way, it will most likely thrive within the social web.

Jonathan

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