 All about Web 2.0: Web 1.0 or Web 2.0In my last entry I laid out a difference between websites and web services: Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. To clarify that point, and bring out a few other things Im going to list some websites and explain which model they fit under:
Wikipedia: Web 1.0. Wikipedia is cited as a "new media revolutionary" changing the way the publishing industry and media work. It may be. But its also a pretty clear web 1.0 company. Its a website you visit to find information. You go, find your Romanian castle information read it and leave. Sure you can change that information, improve it a little, but in the end all youre doing is making the page slightly better for the next random person who comes across it. Flickr: Hybrid. Flickr is interesting because it shows how a web 2.0 company can use those assets to drive a web 1.0 business. Flickr has at its core a complete web 2.0  Dodgeball: Web 2.0. Dodge ball is completely useless to the wandering surfer, except as an exercise in voyeurism. It is a service built on sms and web technologies that allows people to communicate via sms location information to groups of friends. Its not a website, in that visiting the doesnt yield you anything but marketing information. But its a webservice in that it provides a tool built over web Given those three examples Id like to throw some more names out there, leave a comment for anything you think I got totally wrong, along with why: : Web 1.0 Tech Crunch: Web 1.0 Newsvine: Web 1.0 Daily Kos: Hybrid IT Toolbox: Hybrid yahoo.com: Hybrid google: Web 2.0 Bloglines: Web 2.0 |
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