Ruthless enough for a startup? I have been reading about how several successful startups -- Facebook, MySpace, BitTorrent, YouTube, Skype, and HotOrNot -- fueled their early growth that lead to their success. In all the cases, these startups did things that I probably would not have been willing to do. It makes me wonder how ruthless you have to be to have a successful startup. Facebook, for example, "had access to the e-mail addresses of Harvard students" and "blasted e-mails to Harvard students to let people know about the site. " The site, which allows people to list information about themselves and meet other students, largely seems driven by social interaction, dating, and self-promotion.
Similarly, MySpace "had a database of ~100M e-mail addresses" which they spammed to announce their launch. MySpace is broader than Facebook, but also largely seems driven by social interaction, dating, and self-promotion. There seem to be some dismal lessons in these stories. And this makes me wonder, am I ruthless enough? How Ethical is the new Web 2.0 business model? (Trebor Scholz) » Trebor Scholz, who maintains and moderates one of the most consistently qualitive mailing lists for the Institute for Distributed Creativity, has recently started an on-going debate on the ethics of participatory culture. Web 2.0. is three things. It’s a collection of web resources where it is the participants who now directly create the value, using resources provided by privately-owned corporations.
It’s the collection of new tools that make all of that possible. But finally, it is also a new business model, where the said corporations are aggregating and selling our attention. Is it a fantastic example of voluntary creation of social wealth, or the shameless exploitation of free labour? This is the key question addressed in the debate at IDC. In this excerpt, Trebor reviews five ethical requirements, and how well Web 2.0 business models are stacking up. Excerpt: 1) “The utilitarian approach: follow the action that does the least harm and provides the most good.” That’s a tricky one. The GnuHoo BooBoo. Matthew Miller has written in to express his concerns over GnuHoo- the web link tracking project that we posted last week. The issue is use of the term 'GNU' in their name- when in fact their project is all proprietary software. Hit the link below to read what Matthew has to say about it.
When I saw the site, I assumed the source would be made available: In fact, I wanted to install a copy over here to track the links from old articles. Read the following very carefully. The following is written by Slashdot Reader Matthew Miller This is a warning to all supporters of the open source movement -- stay away from the so-called "GnuHoo" web directory discussed on Slashdot a week or so ago!
From the name, and from a quick look, it appears that this is an attempt to create a Yahoo-style web directory only with the content and perhaps the backend software under a GPL-like license. Unfortunately, it's not true. I've got no problems with a non-open project of this type -- it's a good idea. The real story of Web 2.0: Advertising 2.0 - The Jason Calacanis. The real story of Web 2.0 has little to do with the bells and whistles and everything to do with the stunning growth of online advertising.
If you look there is a valley between the dotcom spending days (99/2000) and today, but the trend line would be fairly straight if you held a ruler over the 97 to 2006 points–which I do here with the black line. That dotcom overspend, and the dip after it, shouldn’t have happened. Those swings were due to the emotional roller coaster of the dotcom bubble on the way up, and four huge events after: the dotcom bubble bursting, the accounting scandals, 9/11, and the brief recession caused by those first three. Is the spike over the past year another bubble? How far will this trend line go? Will it get steeper? Why? The first 10 years of this industry have been amazing, but the next 20 are going to be insane.
OK, I shouldn’t have written this blog post… I should have done a podcast I know. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Web 2.0lier than thou. Jaron Lanier recently called the Web 2.0 movement “digital maoism.” Now, as if on cue, the Cultural Revolution has begun. Lawrence Lessig, in a post titled “The Ethics of Web 2.0,” suggests that some Web 2.0 companies are not fit to wear the Web 2.0 label. There are real Web 2.0 companies, and there are sham Web 2.0 companies. There are those that maintain their ethical purity, that obey the Code, and there are the transgressors, the ones that have fallen from the shining path. A “true sharing” site doesn’t try to exercise ultimate control over the content it serves. YouTube is Lessig’s villain, the counterrevolutionary force that threatens the web’s emergent communalist state. “By contrast,” writes Lessig, “every other major Web 2.0 company does expressly enable true sharing.”
But Lessig isn’t really interested in describing the world as it is. The process of social enlightenment always begins with the reshaping of language. But what’s the point, really? Joi Ito's Web: Is YouTube "Web 2.0"? Lawrence Lessig has a thoughtful post about something that I've been mentioning in recent talks I've given, but haven't blogged much about. I'm often asked to speak about "Web 2.0". I personally think that people are trying to build Bubble 2.0 on top of Web 2.0. Instead of becoming a platform for the future of the Web, it's possible that Web 2.0 is becoming the platform for the short-term future of greedy people.
However, I do think that it is important to understand that the recent success and surge in innovation on the Web is due to a semi-new set of principles. Part of the principles are a return to fundamental principles. Bubble 1.0 brought the "customer acquisition and barrier to entry" phase with players such as AOL and Yahoo gobbling up companies and focusing on barriers instead of connectivity. I think Tim O'Reilly's description of Web 2.0 is the best one I've ever seen. As Larry points out: # Flickr, for example, makes it simple to download Flickr images.
Technorati Tags: web2.0. Lawrence Lessig. Web 2.0: just a way of making money or a new collective intellig. Deep Jive Interests » The Corruption of Social Media and the “Ne. Quot;Perpetual beta" means never having to say you're. "Perpetual beta" means never having to say you're sorry. Most of what I read under the "Web2.0" moniker just goes over (or is it under?) My head. But the other day I was on a telephone discussion listening to the characteristics of "Web 2.0": "collective intelligence", "mashups", "light weight programming", "perpetual beta".
"Perpetual beta! " Perpetual beta means newer technology sooner. Perpetual beta means yesterday's features are, well, just so "yesterday". Perpetual beta means never having to release finished code. If the Web 2.0 future is about continual software updates and additions of features then what's needed is a base that can support changes and remain responsive, reliable, and resilient in the face of errors. Technorati Tags: programming, web services, software+engineering, systems engineering, user experience, Web2.0. Web 2.0 and Tim O'Reilly as Marshal Tito. Comment As the Web 2.0 bandwagon continues its rapidly accelerating path downhill towards the inevitable crash we find ourselves at another turning point in the development of the networked world. Ten years ago we were faced with a choice between the controlled homogeneity of the ‘information superhighway’ or the many and various delights of the unsupervised Internet, and we chose wisely.
Now we must decide whether to put our faith in Ajaxified snakeoil or to look beyond the interface to distributed systems, scalable solutions and a network architecture that will support the needs and aspirations of the next five billion users. The choice may seem obvious, but the pull towards the dark side is powerful. Many believe that the best way forward is the one sketched out by Google, Yahoo! And Amazon as they offer tempting APIs and non-standard data formats to enthusiastic developers keen to add some scripted magic to even the most banal website. The wrong question The impossible dream. Categoriz. The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 (Dion H. Predictions for a Web 2.0 social experienc. InShare9 One of our goals at Web Design from Scratch is "Everyone's website works". We're working towards a world where all websites are pleasant, easy, and appealing to use.
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But what about the Web 2.0 companies that haven't made the cover of a magazine? This is their week. The only real requirement is that the companies are something you probably haven't heard of before. This survey is far from scientific. In the first quarter of this year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, 134 Web 2.0 companies received $869 million in venture funding, on pace to beat the $3 billion that 465 firms raked in last year. StumbleUpon Where they are: San Francisco. InfoTangle :: The Hype and the Hullabaloo. By Ellyssa Kroski Phase Two of the World Wide Web has begun and with it comes a renaissance of participation and regeneration. What is Web 2.0 all about? Proponents of the concept claim that it is the second generation of the Internet. This exciting evolution sees the user as the center of the virtual universe. It is an inclusive universe, taking into account the needs of all users, not just those which make up the mainstream.
The Web 2.0 mindset is about using the wisdom of crowds to develop better software, designing simple and straightforward applications efficiently in response to user inclination, and sharing that technology so that others can build upon it. There has been a fundamental shift in the paradigm of how we think about and use the Web. But what some consider a rally cry; others deem a lot of “bunk”. The Hype The term has since developed a robust definition with O’Reilly and others elucidating its finer points. The Web is a Platform. The Network Effect. Less is More. OReilly Network: What Is Web 2.0. Published on O'Reilly ( See this if you're having trouble printing code examples by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?
" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage.
The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other. The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0. The list went on and on. 1. 2. Emily Chang - eHub. Artsy Editor Artsy Editor is an advanced full-screen WordPress WYSIWYG editor.
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O'Reilly Media, in collaboration with MediaLive International, used the phrase as a title for a series of conferences and since then it has become a popular (though ill-defined and often criticized) buzzword amongst certain technical and marketing communities. Alluding to the version-numbers that commonly designate software upgrades, the phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web, and some people have used the term for several years.
In their first conference opening talk, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized key principles they believed characterized Web 2.0 applications: As used by its proponents, the phrase "Web 2.0" refers to one or more of the following: Amp; Blog Archive & From the. Web 2.0 is associated with two different meanings: a collection of participatory and collaborative technologies and an organizational model for social networks. Both ideas are complimentary, giving rise to new opportunities in communication, activism and business. Also, web 2.0 could be understood as a meme designed for the marketing of a new generation of Internet businesses, born as an evolution of the bubble occurring at the end of the last century. But what is web 2.0? , do we actually need a definition? , or, at least, some conceptual map to navigate the new scenario?. A recent article in Web 2.0 Journal (The Post-Modern Rhetoric of High Technology) uses the above “negative” idea of the web 2.0 to propose some hypotheses about its near future evolution: Web 2.0, Search 2.0, Life 2.0, World 2.0.
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