Random Thoughts: Bar Camp Bangalore 2.0 Session: Web 2.0 Business Models

02 December 2006

Bar Camp Bangalore 2.0 Session: Web 2.0 Business Models

Speaker: Sowmya Karmani

At present following business models are used by web 2.0 companies:

Advertising: most widely used business model, but she is of the opinion that this is not sustainable.
Subscription : Ex Flickr, base camp, zoho
Transaction : Ex Jobster, Root markets

But where is the money, honey? She is of the opinion that Web 2.0 companies are not making enough money yet.

How can web 2.0 companies differentiate their services ? Her prescription

Hard to recreate data (ex: myspace, youtube, flickr)
Hard to recreate algorithm (ex: flickr, google, Root markets)
Value added mashups (ex: zillow, zvents)
Tools (base camp)

Is Web 2.0 a bubble that is about to burst? Jury is still out.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Submit your Web 20 apps to web20searchengine.com!; December 02, 2006 10:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi all,

I am working for a software integrator company. My projects includes working on Java and Ruby on Rails and Ajax. I think Web Services is really cool. We also recently have to now work on REST and they are talking about mashups and Struts. Can anyone tell me if there are some good training or conferences so that me and my team members can get to speed with these technologies. Learning from books is not my cup of tea, even not when I was doing engineering ;)

All the help that group members can provide in this regard is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Vaibhavi; January 22, 2009 12:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Vaibhavi,

There are several online resources available that you just google for. If any of your team like to read then quality books from wiley and oreilly cover such technologies in detail.

I also highly recommend you could attend the upcoming Great Indian Developer Summit (http://www.developersummit.com) that is covering Java, Agile, REST, JAX-RS, mashups, .NET, Rich Web, JPA, SOA, rich user experiences, Spring, Groovy and more. They have most of the creators of these technologies as speakers. My team is attending this summit 22-25 apr at IISc campus where we are attending the web conference on April 23 and java on April 24. We have been able to get very good discounts. Maybe all those who are interested from your group can sign up together and get a good bargain from them. what say? I also attended last year's conference and had a really cool time.

In Hyderabad there is Sun Tech Days with some sun speakers.

Thanks,
Anaz; January 22, 2009 3:57 PM