As I'm writing this, I'm regression testing the site in preparation for the launch of the new voting application. I hope it's going to provide users a sound way to cast their votes in this year's mashup challenge!

If Web 2.0 marks the transition from using the internet as a protocol to using it as a platform, what is 2.1?

• One interesting comment I heard at the Web2Point1 conference was 2.0 was the development of the technological solution, and 2.1 was the development of the documentation and educational tools empowering individuals andorgs alike to use it.

2.0/2.1 seems to be about how you can leverage the net as a platform to enrich and enhance ‘real-time’ (for lack of a better word):

• Services such as meetro.com are leveraging the web as a platform to bring individuals who are close in location (blocks away from each other, visit the same bar regularly, etc..) together – organizing people looking to get out in real time and meet with people.