Web 2.0 Checklist

by on November 25, 2005

How do you know you’re looking at a Web 2.0 site?

Well, check the Web 2.0 Checklist, of course! Heh. I’d add to the list that if you saw it on TechCrunch, or if Tim O’Reilly wrote about it, or the Web 2.0 Working Group site has it, it’s probably a Web 2.0 thing. By the way, Tim has an interesting series on his blog about how alpha geeks got into computers. How did I? I was in Hyde Jr. High’s first computer club. That was 1977. I helped unpack our first Apple II computers. With cassette tape drives! Ahh, those were the days.

  • Haha. At first I was afraid that was a serious list you were linking to. Good stuff, though I'm sure there's still potential there for a few more witty ones. "Tops Technorati's tech page for 2 days and then falls into obscurity" "Doesn't seem to have any real benefit, but has enough effects to make people say 'ooooo'"
  • colin
    Me too with the Apple II at school (as the teachers had no clue how to operate it), then Sinclair ZX81 (at 11), then Sinclair Spectrum (Sinclair, as a UK pioneer hardly every gets a mention state-side and I wonder if it's in the museum you visited), then the BBC Micro/Master (again UK micro computer), Sinclair Z88, BBC Electron, IBM RS/6000 running Unix (by 18 years old at university), then eventually Amstrad 086 runing Windows 3.0, Linux, and then every Windows flavour from then on...

    What's everyone else's computer ladder?
  • Surely the question is why should you care if you're looking at a Web 2.0 site?
  • "Tags" is the only required item for web 2.0 software. Rest of them are optional. Go with what makes sense for your software.


    Ramana Kovi
  • A few more:

    * You heard about it at Gnomedex
    * It's a Google service *plus* 2 features
    * Includes Firefox support at launch :-)
    * It fits within Scoble's "If I had $200 million" purchase budget.
  • Christopher Coulter
    A few more still:

    * Chief biz plan is to sell off ASAP...
    * Amateurism, Collectivism, Virtual Communities, as the highest values.
    * Populated by a fantasy community overrun with isolated egos.
    * Run by people that frame the Web in Spiritual tones.
    * Populated with the usual San Fran'ish Web metaphysics wonks...
    * Holds Opinions higher than Reporting...
    * Creates new buzzwords weekly...
    * Understands anything Steve Gillmor says...
    * dot.com style impressive bio pages...
    * Populated with the sort of people who panic and have freak-outs if no WiFi for 15 hours.
    * Run by managers who don't read books (you know those dead tree things).
    * Swag, swag, swag...
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