Exemplars everywhere I turn
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005
at 7:04 AM (permalink)
I didn't get a chance to keep up with my feeds yesterday, so this morning I sat down with a bulging RSS reader. Yummy! I didn't get past the As before I hit what everyone would have to accept as a perfect example of a Web 2.0 application, Amazon's Mechanical Turk. I decided to list every blog post I read in my morning review that points to such an exemplar:
- Mechanical Turk, this site provides an economic model for a global, microcontent focused workforce.
- AjaxTrans, Ajax powered simultaneous translator page.
- Riya, "extracting value from user-generated content and rewarding the 'long tail.'".
- Evil Search Engines, thoughts about the effect of Google on Hollywood. (via John Battelle)
- Technorati Icon, Dave adds an automated vanity search to his navbar. Well, I guess that is more timeless than Web 2.0.
- Writely, a web-based Word competitor with "import and export into Word format, embedded images, a wysiwyg editor, drag and drop functionality, sharing with others, and tagging of documents."
- Protopage, an Ajax driven personal page.
- Last.fm, a social recommendation system for music.
- Finally, to really prove my point Dion Hinchcliffe has a round-up of his favorite Web 2.0 apps of 2005.
