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VentureBeat: The Web 2.0 List — and news about Healthia, YackPack and Grouper’s good fight

  • Lee C. · 3 years ago
    Focusing on technology (e.g. Web 2.0) rather than a solution for a real problem, or taking advantage of a real opportunity, is a pattern repeated over and over and over... I don't care if its Web 2.0 or RPG or COBOL or AJAX, how does it relieve my pain? Will we never learn? [Actually some of us have, and that itself creates opportunity.]
  • Jack · 3 years ago
    Of the sites listed here, Healthia is the only one that seems to be using the technology to address a real problem - the crying need for better information and marketplace dynamics in the purchase of healthcare goods and services.

    Lee is right - Web 2.0 is a set of technologies. How about focusing on the problem these companies are trying to solve?
  • Matt Marshall · 3 years ago
    Sure, let's remember services. YouTube, for example, makes people crack up, and so now it has 6 million people visiting every day to watch vidoes -- and so with those figures, you should be able to get some advertising. My point is that there's 20 other video hosting companies out there, offering similar services, but don't have the traffic, and so can't depend on advertising. And similarly, there are hundreds of other Web 2.0 type companies that depend on advertising, which is why i'm lumping them together. Point taken, though. There are exceptions.
  • BJ Fogg · 3 years ago
    I can't go into the details yet, but for the record YackPack is generating revenues today in various ways. The big announcement depends on another party, not us. We're working to get to profitability soon.

    Thanks for writing about us!

    BJ Fogg
    Founder, YackPack
  • Skeptic · 3 years ago
    Too bad for Healthia that they do not have anyone with real healthcare experience onboard.

    Lack of traffic shows that the dogs are not eating the dog food.