Comments on: Web 2.0 Audience in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It Appears

By: Someday, We’ll All Look Back on This and Laugh | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:39:49 +0000

[...] Web 2.0 Audience in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It Appears How ironic is it that Web 2.0–the “participatory Web”–has far fewer participants than its architects would have us believe? [...]

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The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #54 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:10:31 +0000

[...] Web 2.0 Audience in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It Appears (Digital Daily) [...]

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Tue, 15 May 2007 17:26:50 +0000

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The Nested Float » According to Pew, I’m Almost a Techie Neophyte — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:55:49 +0000

[...] American Life Project has, apparently, surprised a bunch of people. I heard about it first over at John Paczkowski’s Digital Daily. And while I totally agree that the participatory web has a much smaller universe than most of us [...]

By: Robert Pease

Robert Pease — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:54:23 +0000

My quick math tells me the size of the “Ominvores” is only about 15 million people. More attractive from my standpoint is the nearly 50 million more pragmatic/practical users out there.

See my full analysis at http://replytoall.typepad.com

By: Trip Foster

Trip Foster — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:49:46 +0000

I think one of the biggest mistakes in marketing the concept of the “user generated web” or Web 2.0 was that it lead many entrepreneurs to believe that what they were building were businesses versus merely new features for existing websites and portals. The two way interactivity has certainly changed the web as we know it, but its a logical evolution of the web brought about by newer and cheaper technologies… and hence does not represent a “new market”.

By: Graeme Thickins

Graeme Thickins — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:26:39 +0000

John, one of those special moments for me at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in SF was hearing a VC tell a crowd of hopeful entrepreneurs and developers, “We are not a market.” Talk about popping their balloon! I wrote about it in my event recap on Read/Write Web. A lot has to happen yet if Web 2.0 is to go mainstream, and this study should certainly jolt a lot of the extreme-elites out there back into reality.

regards,
Graeme
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