This is easily the best explanation of what “Web 2.0″ is meant to describe…

That’s impressive. The video has been going around for a while but I hadn’t watched it until today.

This was Liz Gannes’s rundown of this year’s Web 2.0 conference:

If you were looking to learn something new, this week’s Web 2.0 Summit was not the place to be. However, if you were planning to catch up, make contacts and swap business cards, then the Palace Hotel’s grandiose hallways were where all the action was. It was rare to chat up anyone at Web 2.0 who had anything positive to say about the official content or news. The consensus seemed to be same old, same old; the reason to break out the checkbook and skip out on real work was to mingle.

Compare that to what I wrote last year:

Overall, I’ve found the conference to be a bit too insular, the San Fran/Silicon Valley “in crowd” talking to each other about, well, each other. And, talking about products directed at each other and not my sisters or my friends or whatever. Established companies and startups looking for cash all telling us how cool they are without talking much about how interesting the space is becoming. What’s missing is how we move from where we are today, where Web 2.0 is almost blasé, to real conversations and what the implications are of tagging and open APIs and whatever.

I can’t think of one session from last year that wowed me from a technical standpoint. There was NOTHING new last year, so I’m surprised at the disappointment from folks this year.

Update: More from Read/WriteWeb.

Update 2: Oops, didn’t notice that Om didn’t write that piece even though it’s at his blog. It was written by Liz Gannes.

(Note: I’m writing here on my own, not on behalf of ESPN or Disney Internet. I did work on this project, so I’m just excited and want to share that with my friends.)

I’m happy to say that MyESPN.com beta is finally available to the general public. It should be an excellent new application for sports fans to set up all of the teams, sports, and news they want in one place site. Instead of visiting a small handful of sites, you can now add the different parts of ESPN.com along with headlines and news from sites around the Internet to your MyESPN page. One stop and you’ve got all your sports and news from more sites in less time. Hopefully, MyESPN will make it easier for you to keep up with your favorite team, win at fantasy, and keep up with the other sites you love.

Savvy users who have used other similar products will hopefully find MyESPN easy to adapt to. I think that MyESPN brings the best sports content and breaks it out into very consumables pieces. You can see a screenshot of my page below sporting the Eagles theme. Click the image to see it full size.

Here’s a quick explanation of what you see. Each little box is called a module or capsule. You can drag them around, rearrange them, get rid of stuff you don’t like, or minimize sports that are out of season.

The great thing about MyESPN is that the modules are richer than many other sites. The top story module, for example, contains the image and all of the links that appear in the Top Story position on ESPN.com. After all, the photography on ESPN.com is one of our strengths. With MyESPN, you can personalize everything and still get the ESPN experience.

The rest of this post will be about using the site. Continue reading if you’re interested in some tips and hints.