What is a web2.0 compliant product?
In this morning’s post about a newly minted startup -minti, michael arrington says
This is another “walled-garden” solution - meaning the founders did all of the easy web 2.0 stuff - ajax, tagging, comments, etc. - but couldn’t make the hard choices when it came to site architecture and fell back on old web 2.0 ways of doing things.
I hope he meant old web 1.0 ways. Either that, or we are on web3.0 and i don’t know it yet. The main point of his review though, is about websites that do visually cool stuff, yet don’t really “get it” - minti being one of the site that don’t get it.
This brings up an interesting question. What is the minimal set of criteria a company/product must meet to be web 2.0? I guess there is a concrete set in people’s mind , but are there principles that can be articulated? I know a checklist is definitely not web 2.0, how about a manifesto - ala agile manifesto?
March 11th, 2006 at 3:12 am
Thanks for mentioning the Minti business. We are interested to improve and would really love to understand how do you think that Minti don’t “get it” Ravi?
If you want some continuous debate on what is or is not “web 2.0″ (including a convenient checklist) then try Dion Hinchcliffe’s excellent blog at http://web2.wsj2.com/
We believe we have embraced a number of the web 2.0 policies - including a 2-way relationship between the user and the service is a key point. There are some others we can tick off and some which we have not yet addressed in the beta release of our site…
March 11th, 2006 at 9:07 am
Matt,
I don’t know if minti gets it or not. I was trying to interpret Tech Crunch’s review of minti and that was/is my interpretation of the review. Infact, i haven’t visited the site yet. I will take time to do so now.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:40 am
The first rule of Web 2.0 is, you don’t talk about Web 2.0.
The second rule is, if you are truly a Web 2.0 company, you don’t need to spend time talking about your company on other people’s blogs, because your site and your users are doing it for you.
Personally, I’m waiting for Web 2.0 Service Pack 1a. The shipping version of Web 2.0 is just a little too buggy right now.