Got a very interesting mail today, asking me info on how a foreign person can set up a US company to run porn web sites.

Although shocked by the theme of the web sites, I felt flattered by the idea that I may know how to do this... If the author of this mail is reading my diary, my reply is that you'd better hire a lawyer to investigate this, rather than ask a general business person like me.

A friend of mine, who runs several web sites, was discussing with me the definition of web 2.0.  Our conclusion was that it didn't mean anything specific (thought we noticed that someone says web 2.0 features thin client computing, user generated contents ect).  To me it is just a phase of the evolusion of internet.  

I am not a techie, not quite sure where this 2.0 will lead us to, what 2.5 or 3.0 will look like. My key concern is whether all these changes will re-shape our real life in a controllable way.  Think about it, spending precious time on browsing purely fabricated materials, or digging into overwhelmingly huge amount of meaningless contents before you finally find the one you need. 

It is true that without such technology I wouldn't be able to make the complaints here.  But at the same time I can recognize some of the mails I got are not from honest persons either.  In the real world, there are ID cards, passports to prove your identity.  Despite lots of efforts on internet identify building, limited results are observed.   Someone may want to check on how the identity in real world was established.