Deja vu, is there a glitch in the Web 2.0 Matrix? Phil Pearson has noticed it:
“OK guys, this is going too far. Not ALL of the following are required for a web 2.0-style application/site:
– Name that consists of a number and a word. (37signals did it for their company, and 43places did it for their site. That’s enough.)
– Blatant rip off of font and style from everything from 37signals.
– Ruby on Rails. (PHP is good enough for Flickr, remember).
– Yellow background appearing then fading out whenever something changes.
– Submit buttons that grey out and say “please wait” when you click them.”
What other Web 2.0 stereotypes can you think of? Here are some suggestions to kick it off:
– Tag clouds
– RSS Aggregators with ‘rss’ or ‘feed’ in their name
– Logos with the same color scheme as Google’s
– Using the word ‘beta’
– Social bookmarking sites that look exactly like del.icio.us
– No one from Google that blogs (thanks Ben Barren for that one!)
Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments…
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)