Web 2.0 is pants: official

USERS ARE STAYING away from the functions in Web 2 based sites, according to a study.

Bill Tancer, an analyst with Web audience measurement firm Hitwise told Reuters that Web 2 is turning out to be such a massive turkey it could feed a family of ten for Christmas and still have left overs for Boxing Day. Well, we are paraphrasing him a bit.

Tancer said some Web 2 sites are popular it is just that no-one is using the natty functionality. A tiny 0.16 percent of visits to Google's top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch. Only two-tenths of one percent of visits to Flickr, a popular photo-editing site owned by Yahoo are upload new photos.

Most users are voyeurs who like to watch rather than create and the entire "interactive thing" that Web 2 was supposed to engender is sailing over their heads higher than than an orbiting space shuttle, Tancer said.

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