Web Two > Permanent Link to Google Answers DOA?

http://www.emergingearth.com [Emerging Earth - emerging technologies and why we care] Answers offering to pay people, and its existing current success, coupled with the fact that there are 101 other Web 2.0 start-ups out there, promising to do the same, there really was never any hope for Google Answers. Having been in development for over 4 years, Google has admitted that there is ”˜no point’ in continuing development of the service.

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[Web2weblog.com] Web 2.0: Main Page - Web 2.0 analyzed - Europe, US, China: In my personal opinion, forums have been a pre-decessor of blogs and all other interactive Web2 style things on the internet. With the birth and especially the growth of blogs, I believe that forums have been put in the background a bit.

http://radar.oreilly.com [Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Web 2.0: Compact Definition?: Web 2.0 is definitely about people -- I believe that the central principle of success in web 2.0 applications is harnessing the collective intelligence of users -- and in my talks, I've often pointed to "the mechanical Turk, a 19th century chess playing automaton with a man hidden inside, as a metaphor for modern web applications, with programmers hidden inside them, performing their daily tasks. (See also my debate with Dave Stutz about how even these web applications harden over time.)

[Esztersblog.com] Eszter’s Blog: UPDATE: One point I forgot to note is that Yahoo! also made the mistake of switching the system in a way that I got a 404 error when I clicked on my old bookmark.

http://www.profy.com [Profy.com] Profy.Com - Web 2.0 multi-author blog: Through MyBlogLog, my website gets 50 extra unique hits each and every day, according to Google Analytics. This might not sound much, but in a year, (…)

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