Session 1 Homework Assignment

Please remember to do your class assignment. It should be fun and there are no wrong answers!

Explore the web trying to find 2-3 sites relevant and interesting for Session 2: Characteristics of Web 2.0 Businesses including the seven core competencies.

1. Services -- not packaged software -- with cost effective scalability
2. Control over unique, hard to create data sources that get richer as more people use them
3. Trusting users as co-developers
4. Harnessing collective intelligence
5. Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
6. Software above the level of a single device
7. Lightweight user interfaces, development models, and business models

Post each link and a brief description to this blog by end of day Wednesday, September 26. We will then discuss as many of these sites as possible at Class Session 2 on Thursday, September 27.