Web 2.0 some site reviews

Just reviewing all the cool Web 2.0 web sites listed in the German magazine Focus some weeks ago. http://www.last.fm/ took a while for me to understand, but what I see is very nice. Download the SW (what a bore, but needed), then whatever you listen to in eg iTunes, Winamp etc is also being shown in the last.fm viewer, with loads of information about the song and group currentlu playing. Actually very good for me, I like music, have loads on my hard disc and iPod, but rarely know what I am actually listening to, now I do. http://www.myspace.com/ is so famous now, both because of all the people using it (ie real users) and in the media space because Murdoch paid so much (580 M USD I think) for it. Cool to look at, I am sure you could spend the rest of your life interacting with all the people here. My take: Not for me - way too old for this - this is desktop publishing gone crazy, with colours, fonts, backgrounds made by people on some serious drugs :-) I am sure all the dating sites around (which I just don´t have time or need to be on) look very similar to this. http://www.lunarstorm.se/ in Sweden is probably the same. Very happy for the kids who use this - but I won´t use it. http://www.facebook.com/ is just way too complicated to get going on, hopefully this means that US users who go through the hoops to register then actually only find their true friends. It is so famous that there´s got to be something good behind it, but I won´t care enough to find out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrqsBMzW6s is just a great use of YouTube and video on the Internet. This 79-year old guy is posting videos online and millions of people are watching it. He is basically just venting on life, his experience of life etc - sharing and letting as many people as he wants to listen in. All in all - a good description of Web 2.0 in this Focus Germany article - if you are new to the concept. Otherwise it lists no new things. The original article on Web 2.0 by Tim O´Reilly is still the definition of the "new" Web for me. Link here.