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I think it is mainly about two points:

1) Languages.

It is important to offer at least two or three more languages. I think there are enough excited people in the community who are willing to assist (like me for German). There should be overall questions that are available on all language versions an such that are country (or language) specific.

Once you have French and German in you have the opportunity to place polls on the big (mail) portals such as Wanadoo.fr, Web.de or Libero.it - their traffic is enourmous and you can really get new people to the community. Also, widgets should include the googlemaps-preview to show that it is not only about boring charts.

2) Moderation.

Questions need to be moderated in a better way. There are too many similar questions like on the Iraq war etc. ask500prople.com needs a tool that enables users to figure out if their question has already been discussed. Of course, the results will be different some weeks later but somehow there should be at least some days between two very similar questions. I am sure you will find a way.

What do the others think?

I think 'Web 2.0' will always be suitable to describe the developments around 2004-7/8/9... but more as an historical term. I am actually tired of it and would prefer calling it just 'the internet'.

come on - post a question with some choises!!

The wikipedia definition of death is 'the permanent end of life'. Thus, there cannot be life after death because otherwise this would not be 'death'...

...and voting on polls ;-)

pure henonism

It would be great if we could repeat this question when we reached the number of 500 votes per poll. This could prove how representative this very interesting result is.

one person from germany voted 'no'... very reliable poll

Well, this could be true. If people don't understand the question, the result will be 50:50 - and that's what is about to happen here...

If it turns out "no", what will you do??