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 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...
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Not just tag clouds -- tags for everything.
I think you forgot "Powered by AJAX"
- Being invite only.
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...
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/
"Using the word 'beta'"
Hey, they started it:
http://mashable.com/?p=18
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
"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.
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 :-)
"sub bloglines" buttons and other voluntary commercials for big players
"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