Web 2.0 Winners and Losers

http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2006/09/71810

I found this article via the Wired News website and it discusses the best and worst Web 2.0 sites out there. It discusses the five best and five worst websites in the Web 2.0 category and what makes them fall where they do. The highest rated Web 2.0 website is Flickr which was chosen because this photo sharing site has the best organization and categorization on the web. The site was also noted for being easy to navigate through and for enhancing the community. This is followed by Odeo, Writely, del.icio.us, and net vibes. The worst of the worst were myspace, squidoo, browzar, and Fo.rtuito.us. The web 2.0 website that was declared the ultimate worst was Friendster. Friendster was one of the first social networking sites to hit the web it has become outdated and obsolete with the emergence of new and improved social networking sites like myspace and facebook.

Web 2.0 encompasses all emerging technologies that involve social interactivity, information sharing, user generated content, and so on. These new technologies provide people with new ways of interaction and with an entirely new internet experience. With new social networking sites emerging on a regular basis the competition becomes very serious and those lacking in some aspects of the Web 2.0 technology or to not able to consistently come out with new and innovative ways for users to interact fall behind. The sites described in this article were most likely judged on this type of criteria and the decisions were based on how well they fit the web 2.0 definition and how original they were in their application of it to their sites.