As sad as it makes me, it seems that all the improvements for a nice lightweight so-called web 2.0 (Google maps, Flickr…) will only lead us to an ugly web 3.0 with the big gorilla in the room – or is it the big mammoth – being the infamously ugly myspace.

Why do I say that? Why potentially hurting the feeling of so many graphically-inclined web developers with this prediction? Because this Business Week article argues its ugly look gives myspace a big edge over competition. And because my dear friend Nicolas (who I am urging to start a blog on its own) sent me this. But then maybe he caught a nasty exotic fever during his Asian trip though he has always had a “f*$k design” attitude for all things web-related.

And this comes just as I am about to launch the new (beautiful) design for my site… Should I go with the default font and bright ugly colours instead?

Note: looking at the pictures of the authors of both mentioned entries can hint you about their motivation… Not that they are ugly themselves (I don’t want to be the judge of that) but they sure look like geeks (you know, much more worried about the kilobyte making a site charging faster or that kind of stuff).