The only Web 2.0 book you need to read (Sarah Lacy's book is on sale now)

UPDATED: January 14, 2008 5:30pm
The book isn't actually available until May! Web 3.0 and 4.0 should be in flight by then.

My pal Sarah Lacy's book about Web 2.0 "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" is now on sale on Amazon.com. I have been giving her grief about the stupidity of Web 2.0 since she has been writing this magic tome, but I have to offer my sincere congratulations to her for cranking this sucker out.

It's the story of how entrepreneurs in silicon valley started to believe in the web again after the drubbing of the 2000 bust. It recounts the birth and growth of the most popular web 2.0 companies of today including Facebook, Digg, Slide, LinkedIn, Twitter, Six Apart, Yelp, Ning and others, by telling never-before-heard personal stories of the people behind them. and this isn't me (Sarah) just supposing what it was like-- the book is the result of hundreds of hours of interviews with the most important people driving, funding and even railing against the Web 2.0 movement.

I can only hope her next book follows the tale of open source destroying proprietary vendor market share.

[petechen]

"title will be released on May 15, 2008" (amazon) Uh Dave, no offense to your pal but let's not hold our breath. In the next 4 months, you can blog 608 pages of more interesting and timely content about web 2.0(b). And it won't cost the public $17.16 each. If "Silicon Boys" was any measure of the genre, with all due respect, I'm not interested in rereading the Larry Ellison and Jerry Yang story. We all know where these boys came from, and what moves them.

[royrusso]

Just think, if the Web 2.0 bubble bursts within the next 4 months, this book will have a great ending.

[daverosenberg]

Hah. You guys are both right. I will attempt to blog 608 pages this week and show Sarah who's boss!

[Technoracle]

The new O'Reilly Book Web 2.0 Architectures is probably the easiest book for anyone looking for an explanation of what Web 2.0 really is. It breaks away architectural patterns from hype and marketing to look at the specific mechanisms that companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc really used to beat out the incumbents in their spaces. Web 2.0 Architectures explains these in ways that are cleanly decoupled from the implementations and hence applicable to other domains. Link - http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514433/