Great podcast from Om Malik and Niall Kennedy about the reality of Web 2.0. It’s a must listen if you live in California. As I live in Akron Ohio I can say that the podcast is very accurate. You may believe that everyone knows about Skype or del.icio.us or even FireFox and the fact is you are very wrong. I’m always telling people about one service or another and most often the reaction is interest but most don’t use the internet enough to turn interest into active usage. Yes I am the only one of my friends checking his email on his cell phone at a party - maybe that’s strange to those that live in Bubbleville, CA but that’s how life is in the majority of the country.
Granted there are large variations - especially with college students - but from what I see the majority use the well known services not the ones covered on TechCrunch (of course I find myself using the ones covered on TC less and less as the incremental value of services offered seems to be dropping - but that’s a different post). If I have time I think I’d like to interview people from Akron about their knowledge about different web sites, I think it would be beneficial to my readers, and very interesting for me as well.
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October 2, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Bob Robertson-Boyd
The heartland is practical and prudent. My experience here in Columbus is the same. Web 2.0 is a curiosity at best.
I’ve hobnobbed a bit with the SF crowd and learned a lot in the process. But I come back to Ohio and find that what I’ve learned isn’t valued much or at all. That will change in a few years, but only in retrospect. As most of these sites go the way of the Big Red Button and the original Spot, folks in The Heart of it All will start to sign on to the few sites that remain.
Still, it is good to hear from someone else out here in the hinterland. How many more of us are there? Enough for BarCampOhio?
October 2, 2006 at 9:54 pm
J.D. Amer
How many people do you need for barCamp Ohio? I’d say there are more than enough.
2.0-ish company’s from ohio include:
Blogcritics
NewsMob
MyEmail
WebNote
BlogPulse
Lopico
and I’m sure others.
Also, I believe the Web2.0 show is partially done in Cincinnati. Not to mention Ohio bloggers.
I’m sure there would be more than enough interest.