The difficulty in commercializing Web 2.0 ventures becomes apparent in the content and discussion around Scott’s post, You Know You’re a Geek If You….
Here’s the task: these plays have to down-geek to a level that is very much within the potential promise of Web 1.0.
Here’s the challenge: keeping the long-term promise of Web 2.0 within the short-term confines of Web 1.0 while not alienating early-adopters.
[...] This is the thought bouncing around my head that I’ve been calling The Struggle - there’s a complicated task/challenge to David’s thought and it’s being able to appropriately identify and integrate acceptable consumer-centric web-friendly practices with the promise of aggregated decentralized content. I don’t think this idea is prominent enough when the edge is discussed, and until it is I don’t think we’ll see the edge successfully adopted. [...]