Interview With Andrew Keen At The Next Web 2009: ?Web 2.0 Is F*Cked?

TechCrunch Europe's Mike Butcher and myself just finished conducting a short video interview with entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen about the end of Web 2.0 and the dawn of a new age of individualism, driven primarily by Twitter. [Mike Butcher writes] The controversial, anti-Web 2.0, figure of Andrew Keen spoke at the Next Web in Amsterdam and outlined some of the themes that he is developing for his next book. Keen is most famous for deriding the 'cult of the amateur', as he calls it, or rather the explosion of social media which arose with the new platforms to emerge alongside what became known as Web 2.0. In a long speech - without notes - he talked about a new age of individualism. With the end of the industrial revolution, "we", essentially are now "the product". He said we are entering a "revolutionary age in which traditional, industrial media is being swept away by individuals." That sounds familiar to his previous pronouncements. But his speech hit a crescendo when he practically shouted across the conference hall that "Web 2.0 is fucked! Web 2.0 doesn't work - it doesn't generate revenue." Afterwards, he repeated the charge in the video above.

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