What was the last time you saw something that dropped your jaw on the Internet? I'm not talking about the evolution of dance or laughing baby youtube video, I am talking about new apps, new ideas, new business models. What's exciting these days? As we are putting the finishing touch to the LIFT08 program, that's the question I am asking around here at Picnic.

Amazingly this question puzzles most of my interlocutors, triggers a long silence, and usually ends with a unenthusiastic "Facebook" answer. It seems Techcrunch is filled with clones of clones announcements these days (that's not a knock on Techcrunch but on all of us, the entrepreneurs and innovators).

Where is the excitement? Where are the digg, twitter, facebook and second life of tomorrow? Nova (LIFT's editorial manager) and me have some ideas, but I'd like to know what the LIFT community thinks.