Web 2.0 Innovators: Mapping the New Stars - Page 3

Coverpop (Sunland, CA): 1,300 Cereal Boxes (for starters)
I opened the page and there were a cacophony of trombones and images and box-popping-boxes popping before my eyes. Refresh and I see, I'm told, "the equivalent fiber of one box of colon-blow" with (apparently) 1,300 vintage cereal boxes before me from which to choose, enlarge, and play about with. It's kind of like that weird police computer in Minority Report, only less evil. In other words: cool.

ElfURL (Dallas, TX): TinyURL Goes Web 2.0?
Adding on to TinyURL's deal where it takes a 59 character URL and makes it tinier (or elf-ier), ElfURL allows you to tag the URL for Rel-tags and del.icio.us. This is one of those ideas that sounds kind of "edgy" and technical but I have no idea how useful it would be.

bitBomb (Orange, CA): Text2Fon
Text message reminders to your cell phone. A really useful idea that might catch on, boy band-style, with the kiddies.

castingWords.com (Espanola, NM): Podcast Transcripts
At $.42 per minute, more old school business proposition than new school Web 2.0 doodad. But in the new Web 2.0 boom, or boomlet, or non-boom, or something, it just might cash in.

Are we seeing a "Web 2.0 boom" akin to the dot com utopia of the late 1990s? Does Web 2.0 even exist or is it just a catchy term that doesn't hold much substance?

Whatever the case, there's lots of cool things going on out there. I'm looking forward to reporting back with more.

Article Author: Eric Berlin

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