My two-line review of Web2.0 kind of sites. Of those web2.0 sites that appear in the first 100 sites as ranked by Alexa.
MySpace: I am surprised that it has come so far up. I have used it a bit, and found it quite clumsy, non sticky. Would be interesting to find out the number of page views per active registerd member, and compare with other such sites, say Orkut.
YouTube: Truly transformational! An aside: we all have become active producers. More production less consumption. How would this effect advertising? For a later post.
Orkut: Very clean and fresh. Quite unassuming, but fairly sticky. Would be interesting to know how else the traffic can be monetised. Apart from adsense, I mean.
Wikipedia: Lots of neat information. My wife actually uses this quite a bit, preparing for her basic electrical engineering lectures! And now the results pop up with fair regularity in the first few of Google search.
Blogger: Its no newcomer. Wonder if blogger was the first of its kind. It could do with some more templates. Changes in templates should not lose the link information, etc.
Amazon: Should I call it web2.0? Ah well let me grudge this big daddy a little cool-ness. Has defined and adopted much of web2.0. Is redefining web2.0 for the enterprise.
Megaupload: Dont know where this cropped from. Seen once, used never. Offers more space than is available on my system at any time. Guess it is a matter of perception - can the message move from amount of space (which will get commoditized) to something more valuable - ease of retrieval? adding value to data - BI? What else?
Fotolog: Dont understand this - is this a mistake? Google page rank seems to completely ignore this site. How can this feature higher than flickr?
RapidShare: Looks like we need to forget about this. It has become a paid service. They did not have the deep pockets to support the server, bandwidth costs? Shakeout in the web2.0 world?
Craiglist: It is vast! The interface can be very deceptive, but there is a lot happening under the folds. In Bangalore specifically there is not so much happening, but I think it could have a great future. For me it really is a case study of how a pure text interface can be so useful.
Flickr: Deceptively easy to use. A big leap of faith, where you can share anything with anyone.
Hi5: Frankly, I dont know how far any of these networking sites will go. Somebody has to do the next level of thinking... So much production, so little consumption.
Facebook: Ditto as above.
Xanga: Frankly, I need to get a bit deeper into this. Do stay tuned.
Friendster: Not another!
Photobucket: Looks OK. Hah, you thought you would get more, eh?
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Some data on MySpace from compete.com, 60 M+ visitors, 67 pageviews per visit and nearly 30 minutes per stay. Social networks are pretty much going to rule the top 10 web properties as long as they are measured in terms of pageviews.
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