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“Reality around the virtual” was how Will Woods ended his blog the future of web apps, arguing for the importance of the context - the concrete, the real that adds to the virtual. One of the things that i really identified with was Will’s comment

“The things that disappointed me were that I was bombarded with a hundred different ’sponsors’ or mini site vendors Blurb, widr, yuuguu, wakcopa, pluck, baagz, zend, etc. so why the stupid names guys?!? - It was a bit overwhelming, I’m just about getting my head around Facebook and MySpace and now I’ve got aobut 50 more to explore (if I get the energy!). They weren’t disappointing in themselves, it’s more that I know that nine out of ten of them will be gone in a year or taken over by Google, Yahoo or Microsoft.”

So how the heck do we keep up? And should we????