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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] What Does Web 2.0 Mean Redux (WAS RE: XTECH 2006 Call for Pape
 He's right, Dave. So qui bono? "iTunes is Web 2.0ish in this sense. Finally you can buy individual songs instead of having to buy whole albums. The recording industry hated the idea and resisted it as long as possible. But it was obvious what users wanted, so Apple flew under the labels. [4] Though really it might be better to describe iTunes as Web 1.5. Web 2.0 applied to music would probably mean individual bands giving away DRMless songs for free." - Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html Umm.. if you are on the production side of this instead of the consuming side, you would notice that the last sentence is right precisely and only because iTunes will sell you individual songs, BUT <strong>they don't accept songs from individual artists</strong>. They make artists deal with middleGuys who deal with them. The middleGuys only deal with artists who make CDs (no submission of individual tunes) and has representation in the form of a label that represents many artists and they do this for tadaaaa: a percentage. It only took a few years for the bad old business model to reconstitute itself on the web and Apple made that happen: volitionally. Good guys? Think again. Business people with a market to conquer. Lots of little bites making one big bite into the product with no value added but to say 'yes'. Outcome: Big artists are still a product of marketing. Street musicians and garage bands are still street musicians and garage bands. The only real improvement is they can pick the corner and the cost of recording is time and a few thousand bucks for gear. So if you pass one othem, toss a few coins in the hat and they'll toss back a few DRMless mp3s which by fact of giving them away, reduced their economic value to zero. So artists are what they always were: meat. Smart ones build their own Web 2.0 web sites and have Paypal or its ilk anyway. The rest of us do it for boo. What does Web 2.0 mean? It means exactly what the market always means: the same people get to make money again for the same software except this time it will be cheaper, come in smaller boxes, and do less than it did last time which means you will buy/download/subscribe to more to get the same. But this time, when it gets obsoleted, you will change like it or not. You may not notice, and you won't have to hunt through your old CDs for the backups but if you lose your credit card number, it won't matter anyway because they don't know your name, just your credit card number. Progress for the same reasons for the same people: items based on scarcity may not be interesting to investors, but scarce capital is everyone's problem. The ownership society never acknowledges that and that is Graham's social network. Standards for protocols for web applications: think XSD. What does it cost to think again? As I said on my blog, if you really intend to have fewer web languages, you better get the right ones up front or you have co-opted into mediocrity and bloat. What you can't download for free, you have to license. Think what you like, but Microsoft is right about that. If you want them to field openDoc, you have to vote with your wallet. It IS about procurement. "All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills In somebody else's name..." The Gatlin Brothers. len From: Dave Pawson [mailto:davep@d...] As usual, Paul puts a sensible head on this. http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html I'd love to disagree with him... but can't. 
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