Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Social Software
What's it take to be a Web 2.0 start-up?
When asked if "someone with nothing more than a good idea could start a Web 2.0 business", Boyd replied, "having an innovative idea is a good start, a necessary precondition for success. But there is a lot of luck involved, too. [...] The best advice I can give for would-be web app developers is to go where other companies aren't: move into the white space where there are no competitors. The world does not need yet another social bookmarketing app, another social event site, or another screen sharing tool."
I've got my own great idea for a new Web 2.0 start-up. It's this social-screen-sharing event site with bookmarking ability added on. Oh yah, and you can vote on things too! Wait! Where are you going? It's the next killer app, really!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
