Comments on: Good Idea, Bad Idea – Internet Advertising

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:30:10 +0000

Srinivasan, below are the seven “core competencies” of Web 2.0 that Tim O’Reilly identified. I think this list would provide a far more concrete way to evaluate a site/company’s Web 2.0 status. It’s important to note that a company does not have to meet all 7 to be considered Web 2.0.

1. Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability

2. Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them

3. Trusting users as co-developers

4. Harnessing collective intelligence

5. Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service

6. Software above the level of a single device

7. Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models

Good luck with your page. It’s not a new idea any more so I’m not sure what the allure will be.

Jon

By: Srinivasan

Srinivasan — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:06:15 +0000

Jon,

Thanks for stopping by.

Reg the definition of Web2.0, The definition by Paul Graham is simple and captures the idea perfectly.

Reg ppl going to our site, well, time will tell.

Srinivasan
http://web20milliondollarhomepage.com

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:34:02 +0000

Yup, sure is, and kinda sucks. You could find a more concrete definition of "Web 2.0". Wikipedia offers some good info, or better yet, Tim O'Reilly's description is considered as close to definitive as has been written to-date. More to the point, who do you think is going to go to your site? The idea itself is not truly Web 2.0, nor does it offer any interesting content. Long story short, web20milliondollarhomepage.com is the anus below the long tail.

By: Srinivasan

Srinivasan — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:09:04 +0000

This is a compendium of Web2.0 companies, built on the concept –

http://www.web20milliondollarhomepage.com