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Creating real business value with Web 2.0 (ZDNet.com)
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Russell Beattie Notebook - WTF 2.0

February 28, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

"At the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors last spring, two panelists at a session on the crisis in the industry flashed a slide of Newmark and asked the editors how many of them knew who Craig Newmark was. A faint show of hands. Craigslist? A few more.

“The shocking thing is that this was someone who was not only a threat to steal their business but was in the process of doing it,” says Jay Rosen, a blogger (the name of his blog is PressThink) and professor of journalism at NYU. “What industry could survive in which you don’t know the name of the person who is taking away your business? They’re mystified. They don’t know who this guy is and where he came from. And it just shows—that it’s easier for Craig to learn journalism than it is for these guys to learn the Web.”

From a business standpoint, this may be the most revolutionary aspect of the Craigslist model: It took what had long been defined as a profitable industry—classifieds—and demonstrated that it is not much of a business at all, but is rather what open-source advocates call “a commons,” a public service where people can find one another with minimal intervention from their minders. Even so, the revenues from the tiny portion of ads Craigslist charges for are so considerable that Microsoft and Google and eBay have all come up with competitors or have announced plans to do so."

(The Rise of Craigslist and How It's Killing Your Newspaper -- New York Magazine)

February 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Web 2.0 Generator

"Quick! The Web 2.0 bandwagon is leaving and you are not on it! Don't worry, there is still time if you act fast. Luckily the Web 2.0 Generator is here to save the day!"

February 23, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

edgeio Invitation Codes

edgeio is starting to roll out!

The invitation code came today.

The site UI is excellent. Concept amazing.

This should be a game changing way of users interacting.

A perfect example of the possible emergent properties of small pieces loosely joined.

From the edgeio About page:

edgeio dynamically organizes listings published from RSS enabled websites making them discoverable via the edgeio website and through an open set of web services. Our goal is to give publishers of all sizes the means to control how their content is published, discovered, and consumed. By doing so, edgeio provides everyone easy, up to date, access to content from the Internet's edge.
edgeio dynamically organizes listings published from RSS enabled websites making them discoverable via the edgeio website and through an open set of web services. Our goal is to give publishers of all sizes the means to control how their content is published, discovered, and consumed. By doing so, edgeio provides everyone easy, up to date, access to content from the Internet's edge.

One possible issue is whether or not bloggers will actually want to sell stuff off of their own blogs, but there are so many easy ways to work around that issue - bloggers can easily set up an extra "commerce blog" linked (or not linked) off of their main blog and/or edgeio can easily provide "commerce blog post" space off of their own platform - so this should not be an insurmountable issue in the least.

This UserDriven Blog was started to highlight systems like edgeio. And while many user-driven systems have launched over the last half year or so, they were pretty much variations of the same thing, and that is where both interest and the postings here started to wane... but edgeio brings back the excitement of the possibilities of truly elegant and useful user-driven systems. (Thanks!!!)

I have also been taking a sneak peak at Advolution ("The next revolution in search engines") which is another user-driven system that could also possibly be very game-changing in a very different way (note that a large part of what they are up to is still only available via a password protected development site).

Now that edgeio has provided remotivation to start blogging again, look for a post on that soon...

And, since you have read this far and are thus obviously interested, and, as another blogger has already publicly posted it - try the invite code: LAGUNA

More good info from many different perspectives:

edgeio blog: Edgeio Invitation Codes

Edgeio Edges Toward Launch--and a Clash with E-Commerce Giants?

TechCrunch leads Silicon Valley Web renaissance | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Sneak peek at edgeio! Tom Raftery’s I.T. views

AMCP Tech Blog: Preview of Edgeio, the eBay Killer

White African: Edgio: Listings From the Long-Tail

razorshine: edgio - an ebay killer?

mathewingram.com/work

AccMan Pro - Dennis Howlett on innovation for professional accountants - edgeio scores a hit

getanewbrowser.com: listings on steroids

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