tag:,2009:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519- 2009-11-23T20:01:13Z Comments for Web 2.0 Stereotypes Movable Type 4.23-en tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519 2005-09-08T09:49:14Z 2007-12-16T23:15:48Z Web 2.0 Stereotypes Deja vu, is there a glitch in the Web 2.0 Matrix? Phil Pearson has noticed it: "OK guys, this is going too far. Not ALL of the following are required for a web 2.0-style application/site: - Name that consists of a number and a word. (37signals did it for their company, and 43places did it... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Deja vu, is there a glitch in the Web 2.0 Matrix? Phil Pearson has noticed it:

"OK guys, this is going too far. Not ALL of the following are required for a web 2.0-style application/site:

- Name that consists of a number and a word. (37signals did it for their company, and 43places did it for their site. That's enough.)

- Blatant rip off of font and style from everything from 37signals.

- Ruby on Rails. (PHP is good enough for Flickr, remember).

- Yellow background appearing then fading out whenever something changes.

- Submit buttons that grey out and say "please wait" when you click them."

What other Web 2.0 stereotypes can you think of? Here are some suggestions to kick it off:

- Tag clouds

- RSS Aggregators with 'rss' or 'feed' in their name

- Logos with the same color scheme as Google's

- Using the word 'beta'

- Social bookmarking sites that look exactly like del.icio.us

- No one from Google that blogs (thanks Ben Barren for that one!)

Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments...

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36285 Comment from Carlo Zottmann on 2005-09-08 Carlo Zottmann http://G-Blog.net/user/Gossip Not just tag clouds -- tags for everything.

]]> 2005-09-08T12:23:05Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36286 Comment from Fred C. on 2005-09-08 Fred C. http://www.fredcavazza.net/ I think you forgot "Powered by AJAX"

]]> 2005-09-08T12:27:43Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36287 Comment from Sergey Schetinin on 2005-09-08 Sergey Schetinin http://maluke.com/ - Being invite only.

]]> 2005-09-08T13:36:17Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36288 Comment from Andrew Watson on 2005-09-08 Andrew Watson http://changingway.net I think that the 2.0 meme is among the stereotypes you are looking for. I recently referred to the urge to refer to everything as 2.0 as "Compulsion 2.0" which just shows how badly I have it.
And perhaps referring to things as memes is also up there...

]]> 2005-09-08T13:39:47Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36289 Comment from Sergey Schetinin on 2005-09-08 Sergey Schetinin http://maluke.com/ Andrew: I made a post why Web2.0 is good way to address what is going on with the _web_ just minutes ago. As of urge of similarily labeling websites, trends and technologies.. well that's kinda Dotcom2.0
http://maluke.com/blog/archive/2005-09-08/web-20-is-a-good-term/

]]> 2005-09-08T14:01:25Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36290 Comment from Pete Cashmore on 2005-09-08 Pete Cashmore http://www.mashable.com "Using the word 'beta'"

Hey, they started it:

http://mashable.com/?p=18

]]> 2005-09-08T14:32:33Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36291 Comment from Mike on 2005-09-08 Mike http://mindvalley.blogspot.com Love the list! This is pretty funny. I think tagging has to be added to the list of stereotypes.

However, some stereo types are good such as AJAX, tagging, etc. After all, that is what defines them. Also don't know why beta is a bad thing if a site is truly in beta and seeing lots of changes.

Mike

]]> 2005-09-08T14:43:41Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36292 Comment from Brandon Hull on 2005-09-08 Brandon Hull "Beta" is unnecessary. Isn't every site in beta, really?

A list of clickable tags is plenty for me. And whatever happened to the more mainstream term "keywords"?

Invite-only has been mentioned already, but beyond that, it's the hype-before-the-launch built on all the above that's most annoying. Even 37Signals is guilty of this with writeboard.

]]> 2005-09-08T16:10:06Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36293 Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-09-08 Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Great list folks! Just to add, being a Web 2.0 stereotype isn't necessarily a bad thing - eg tag clouds can be very useful. But stereotypes can get ho-hum :-)

]]> 2005-09-08T22:58:46Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36294 Comment from Jens on 2005-09-09 Jens http://blauerbote.com/ "sub bloglines" buttons and other voluntary commercials for big players

]]> 2005-09-09T11:19:39Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4519-comment:36295 Comment from Tim Yang on 2005-09-11 Tim Yang http://timyang.com "In the product literature, all Web 2.0 apps must compare themselves to Google or one of its products" ~ Google's Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_law

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