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“Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” — Albert Einstein

More of the same thing…

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One of the things that bother me with the hype of web 2.0 is the lack of real innovation. Following the first wave, of companies that create new product or successful business, the next waves are rarely developing anything new.  As I wrote in the past I like competition and I like to have choices. However, many companies, that offer different flavor of exactly the same thing, are not a real competition.

This type of criticism was usually limited to people that were skeptical about the web 2.0 phenomena. However, it seems that when one can point to 13 different companies that offer calendar applications or 20 different companies that offer on-line bookmarking the uncomfortable feeling start to spread.

It is spread enough that even Michael Arrington, one of the prominent member of the Web 2.0 workgroup, wrote today :

“But at the end of the day I’m not sure how many social bookmarking sites can make the cut.”

I’ll be much more thrilled when I’ll see so called web 2.0 applications in more than 11 different categories…

Written by Rogel

December 27th, 2005 at 4:56 am

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