eBizMBA has released a list of the top 30 blogs as of August 2008 ranked by measures of inbound links (Yahoo Site Explore) Alexa Rank and unique monthly visitors from U.S. (based on Compete and Quantcast data).
In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example:
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
DoubleClick
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Google AdSense
Ofoto
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Flickr
Akamai
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BitTorrent
mp3.com
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Napster
Britannica Online
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Wikipedia
personal websites
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blogging
evite
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upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation
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search engine optimization
page views
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cost per click
screen scraping
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web services
publishing
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participation
content management systems
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wikis
directories (taxonomy)
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tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness
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syndication
1. The Web As Platform
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but
rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0
as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system
of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance
from that core.