It looks obvious

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

Where are the masses?

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Is Squidoo inability to take off and reach the masses unique or maybe many of the so called web 2.0 companies need to re-examine their approach? Can it be that the concept behind many of these companies targets a small portion of the entire population?

I guess I am, at list somewhat, one of those early adopters. I enjoy technology for the sake of technology. I enjoy using a web site that was design well. I even pack my hard drive with many applications that nobody really need.
 
But even the most dedicated web 2.0 follower has to wonder who really need this company , or this . And when they coined the term software as a service , they meant to a real service not only a delivery method.

So before dreaming about being punched by Yahoo! Listen to this advice :

A good review in Techcrunch can get a company their first 5-25K beta users very quickly.  However, I’d strongly caution entrepreneurs from taking their initial consumer adoption metrics and extrapolating them too far into the future.  I believe startups will find it difficult to cross the “Techcrunch chasm” between the Web 2.0 geeks and Mainstreet USA.  
If we could get access to the usage logs of the top 10 Web 2.0 properties, I would bet that their 10,000 most active users would all be the same.

Written by Rogel

May 11th, 2006 at 9:21 pm

Posted in Web 2.0

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