Want a Web 2.0 hit? Go old school

Thinking about building the next Web 2.0 sensation? You might want to weigh history just a bit. Marc Hedlund, founder of Wesabe, says Web 2.0 is just a bunch of old Unix commands wrapped in pretty Web interfaces.

He makes a fairly convincing case; IM/Aim/ICQ/Gtalk? That's all just talk and finger. Google? That's just a sophisticated implementation of find and grep.

Kottke takes it one step further; "take something that everyone does with their friends and make it public and permanent." Jason Kottke says YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Blogging all have a meat-space equivalent and that making a hit just take successfully boiling that down to the Web and making it public and permanent.

So what are you waiting for? Fire up some Ruby-on-Rails and make something permanent!

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