Marc Andreessen finally has a blog.  You might remember him as the guy that started Netscape or as a co-founder of recently launched Ning.  As a legend in the interactive space I plan on adding his blog to my continuously growing RSS feed list.

He has an interesting post up today about why there is no such thing as Web 2.0. In my favorite part of the post, he writes:

“As a result of the widespread adoption of language like “Web 2.0 companies” and the “Web 2.0 space” — and startups referring to themselves as such, most of which will fail — you get a predictably cynical backlash from people who then dismiss the whole category as trendy marketing hype full of me-too wannabes and in the process throw out the baby with the bathwater and dismiss all the legitimately new and exciting products and companies that are being created all around us.” 

I couldn’t agree more with him on this point.  The biggest problem I have with labeling something “Web 2.0″ is that it is likely to be dismissed as a marketing fluff idea that is all hype and no substance - although I suppose one could argue that all the VC and M&A activity that we have seen in the past year would suggest that everyone is buying into the hype.