Breaking up with someone has probably never been an easy task. How tell him or her that it’s over? However, the possibilities of how to do this have changed quite a lot over time. Let me give you a short “historic” overview:

Pre-web and pre-post times — only possibility: a personal encounter to tell him or her the unpleasant truth. Very inconvenient, as this would often lead to all kinds of unpleasant situations (hysterical fits, black eyes, … you get the picture).

Pre-web times – public postal service available (but mind your spelling and hope that the mail isn’t lost on the way)

Web 0.5 – mobile phones have arrived! No WAP yet, but SMS are very convenient – cheap, quick and easy. No need for eye contact or keeping your voice down. A paradise for serial break-uppers.

Web 1.0 – emails are the latest fashion. Now this does add a new dimension to ending a relationship – just as cheap and impersonal as an SMS, but much more space for nasty verbal kicks! And no blotched stains on the writing paper revealing that is not as easy for you as you are pretending… Perfect for those who need more than 140 characters for their message.

Web 2.0 (today) – interactivity, gadgets and constant connectivity are the order of the day, and people need to invent new forms of ending their relationships. Jimmy Wales, who is one of the founders of the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, probably thought he’d take the lead and has now shown us how to break up 2.0 – by announcing the news on his Wikipedia profile… and confirming it on his blog. Very 2.0 indeed.

His former girlfriend’s stylish reply was even more web 2.0. She put his old stuff up for sale on Ebay, and successfully, too: the current bid for one of James’s T-shirts is 500 US-Dollars…a true war of the roses 2.0.
When will people start breaking up on Facebook or Twitter?

Already heard of Twitter? What the hell does that mean? Here is a short instructive video “in plain english” of what it is and what we can get out of it

Some of you may still remember the burst of the internet bubble of the time of web 1.0. Inspired by the stock quotations of some 2.0 companies, the authors of the website Richter Scales had the idea to write a song. Very amusing and just in time! Is “Here comes another bubble” the hit of this winter?

If to you, too, “web” means Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and so on, you have probably already asked yourself what extra value you get from all this. In other words, how much is your network worth?

Xing, the professional networking website “made in Germany” helps you to answer this important question. For those who love web 2.0 and numbers should have a look at MyNetworkValue.com.

Which BuzzAngel has the most beautiful network?

Now BuzzParadise is more “web2.0 enabled” than ever before: we lacked a FlickR and a Ziki, and now we have fixed that.

For those who don‘t know: FlickR is a service for storing and sharing images on which BuzzParadise regularly publishes photos of its operations. You can find ours here.

At the same time BuzzParadise now calls a new account on Ziki Company its own. This service allows us to collect our RSS flow in one point and to participate in a community launched by French (just like DailyMotion where we also have an account).

Lots of ways to join us. What are you waiting for?