Comments on: Web 2.0’s Cruel Machiavellian Joke

By: neunetz.com » last.fm künftig auch mit Musikvideos

neunetz.com » last.fm künftig auch mit Musikvideos — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:12:30 +0000

[...] Diese Neuerung dürfte mittel- bis langfristig wohl das Ende des last.fm-youtube Mashups last.tv bedeuten. Ein weiteres Beispiel für das mashup-Dilemma. [...]

By: Erin Pettigrew

Erin Pettigrew — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:55:25 +0000

[...] the simplicity of the product. No doubt additional features are in the works, which will mean more scene-stealing from Google Maps mashups. Until then, I’m planning on beefing up my Placelog using the rich HTML option to describe [...]

By: jhay

jhay — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:20:52 +0000

That’s why Google is the one to beat in today’s Web 2.0

Wonder how the other companies would go about this.

By: Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:33:15 +0000

“Machiavellian” or “Microsoftian”?

This approach isn’t really new and I’d suggest any company who relies on another company’s technology to provide the vast majority of the horsepower underlying their application was in trouble before they started.

(The mashup/API-based companies also leveraged millions upon millions of Google’s R&D costs in the process as well – most of the offshoot sites could never have existed without the technology Google (or other companies provide for free/low cost through their API.)

By: Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Talk Back Fridays: Is Web 2.0 Dead, Dying, or Just More Machiavellian?

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:11:57 +0000

[...] Tony Hung commented on Om’s piece here, at Deep Jive Interests, calling Google’s actions [...]