Ideas for "Web 2.0" sites Aug01 '07

Every so often I'll think of an idea for a "Web 2.0" site, which would contain aspects of:

• Sharing
• Collaboration
• Freshness
• Uniqueness

These are some traits familiar to "Web 2.0" sites.

Here are a couple of recent ideas.

"My Ten"

"My Ten" would be a service that acts like a blog, but only features your ten most prominent posts. There would be no "archives."

The benefits of this would be two-fold:

1. It will limit search engines from referencing very old blog posts, many of which are out-dated, irrelevant, and simply forgotten by the author. Sometimes I look back at old blog posts from years ago, and I wonder, "Who was that person?" I know it was me, but I was a different person back then.

2. It forces blog authors to constantly keep their posts fresh, relevant, and about them. After all, a blog post is nothing if it is not you.

There would certainly be a "social networking" side to this service, as I can imagine lots of fun ways to interact with people having similar blog posts, etc.

I imagine a service that lets you pull blog posts from your current CMS. Perhaps you posted an article at another site, as a contributing author. You could somehow "include" that post as well. All of your "ten posts" would then reside on your "My Ten" main page.

(In other words, you wouldn't have to re-write any post. You could just include it using the URL, or something like that.)

You could then write new posts directly in your "My Ten" account, or on another site, and just include the post.

"List It"

"List It" is a service that promotes everything as being a "list." Think about how you organize ideas in your head. You create a list. Everything we do (when organization and structure is important) is practically a list.

And I'm not just talking about mundane lists like a "grocery list." I'm referring to collaborative, extensible, individualistic lists that speak about your every intention.

This is probably harder to explain, but if you use a service like Twitter, you'll understand the importance of brevity when forming ideas and concepts. "List It" would combine brevity with classification with personality.

"List It" would also be a social networking site, where items on "your lists" are compared with similar items on other's lists.

Development of these sites

If anyone is interested in helping me fund and develop these applications, please let me know.

Categories: Ideas , Web Sites

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