I rang one of my good friends to ask him some questions on web related things, he is what i would class as an expert (computer science degree, 3 websites, 14 owned domain names). The first question i asked was to see if he thought i should by the domain: samuelpotts.com , he said yes, and so 20 pounds spent and i have it for two years. It feels great, i feel like i have just bought my first home, but on the web.
I then proceeded to rant about my new found facination with reading blogs, and how cool it was that you could collect all the stuff from the web that you like in one place – in my case Netvibes. He was quiet and and did not mirror my enthusiasm at all, at which point i asked him why and he said ‘well its not exactly new is it?’
It is for me!
This conversation reminded me of the fact that for many people including my girlfriend; blogs, myspace, youtube, twitter, bebo etc etc do not play a part in daily life.
People such as myself, who seek to understand these web creations with a view to somehow monetitzing them for the companies we are employed by, must remember that for the vast majority of the public the internet is still only ‘email’ and ‘websites’, if anything.
Where am on the curve? I am an expert when compared with my girlfriend, but a novice when compared to my good friend. My dad, cannot turn the computer on without help.
Where are my company’s most lucrative consumers on the curve and how does this affect our plans to exploit the many ‘web 2.0′ opportunities available to us? It is a question i am constantly trying to answer.
