The Analysis
I was thinking about checking out Pinterest. It seems the new hot thing. It's yet another Web 2.0 tool out there. And then...I started thinking about the web 2.0 tools that I knew about.
- Twitter: useful for writing a short statement and adding a link, browsing your friends
- Blogs: useful for writing statements, adding commentary and links.
- Facebook: useful for writing a short statement and (maybe) adding a link, playing games, browsing your friends. Based on networks of friends.
- Google+: useful for writing a short statement and (maybe) adding a link, browsing your friends, playing games. Based on networks of interconnected people.
- Pinterest: linking to pictures and making a statement. View others statements based on interests rather than friend networks.
- StumbleUpon: Hm...linking to sites based on interests. Some ranking involved. Essentially random, you don't see your friends stuff, you see your favorite topics. Like Pinterest?
- Flickr: Post your own pictures. Add a statement. Share.
- You Tube: Post your own videos. View others videos.
- Delicious: post your own links, share them with your friends. Add keywords. Allow ranking.
Sometimes we are seeing variation in a few random qualities across the entire landscape, like someone is putting slips of paper into a big hat and pulling certain ones one by one and then shaping that into something on the internet.
Want to be an internet pioneer? Get a hat, and make your own Web 2.0 technology. It's the new hip thing to do. Then sell it for millions.
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