Do we realy need these?
I opened a new category: companies that nobody need. The list will include companies or software that seems to me as trying to ride on the new web 2.0 hype and are mostly “built to flipâ€. I like companies that invent or implement new useful technologies. However I despise companies that their only reason for existence is to make a quick buck.
The first in my list belong to a new site by a company that usually develops good products. Intuit develops suit of accounting software for large range of users. However it seems that they decided to jump into the Web 2.0 water with a new service in which you the user going to rate businesses and intuit will make fortune. I thought that craiglist and Google base offering the same?
The second on my list is the new European pictures service that offer the same services that Flickr offers, look like Flickr but isn’t Flickr. Really guys I’m all for competitions, but I would like a real competition not a déjà -vu. If you want to offer the public an option to Flickr then offer alternatives like new feature, revenue sharing – be creative. As it seems now 23 is a bubble company.
The last one on my list today is Plazes. Equipped with Web 2.0 name and the message of sharing the company offers:
“Plazes is a grassroot approach to location-aware interaction, using the local network you are connected to as location reference. Plazes allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you. It’s the navigation system for your social life and it’s absolutely free.â€
Are you for real? Why in the name of god would I want this? Yes, open API is nice and useful; open Source might be, sometimes, useful; but what it has to do with “location-aware interaction“???
Web 2.0 , Bubble , zipingo , Plazes , 23 , Google Base , Craig List , Flickr
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Rollyo.com maybe you can explain why a person would want to use some else's search results!
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