June 27, 2006
Bottom 5% of the Web 2.0
Tim O’Reilly explains in this famous article (which, I swear, actually crashes Firefox on OS X) that “In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | –> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | –> | Flickr |
| Akamai | –> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | –> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | –> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | –> | blogging |
| evite | –> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | –> | search engine optimization |
| page views | –> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | –> | web services |
| publishing | –> | participation |
| content management systems | –> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | –> | tagging (“folksonomy”) |
| stickiness | –> | syndication” |
Now, the article goes on, but let’s stop at this first brainstorm. I didn’t bring my brain anorak and I don’t want to get brain drenched.
Aren’t there newly-evolved forms of some of the other famous “Web 1.0” ideas?
Yes.
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| under construction | –> | blog hiatus |
| dancing baby | –> | All Your Base Are Belong to Us |
| MUD addiction | –> | World of Warcraft addiction |
| animated GIF | –> | YouTube |
| The Starr Report | –> | Colbert roasts Bush |
| Pathfinder.com | –> | Go.com |
| Wired | –> | |
| Internet service provider | –> | telecommunications monopoly |
| Mr. T Ate My Balls | –> | Garfield without Text |
| Geocities | –> | MySpace |
| <blink> | –> | {text-decoration: blink} |
| Internet Oracle | –> | Ask Metafilter |
| PointCast | –> | RSS |
| soliciting minors for sex | –> | soliciting adults to slaughter and eat |