Most of the Cream of the Crop Web 2.0 Start-ups will proabably be purchased by large pocketed giants (why re-invent the Wheel?)...

There will probably be some ad-supported Basic services, as ad targeting becomes more exact – plus – optional subcription based full services....

As technology and bandwidth and processing power increases and costs decreases – it will allow Web 2.0 to follow the same footsteps as the World Wide Web Services did in the late Nineties – the unique ideas being incorporated and further developed by large firms....

<b>Onced experienced, the need for real-time, mass global communication among "communities" of interest becomes so addictive that societies will adapt any way they can! </b>

yes, gather just got their second round of funding..$7M in the pockets!! :)-