Posted by unregistered user at 8/29/06 2:37 p.m.

haha.............great read John. I'm guessing my question yesterday regarding this company prompted this write-up?

Posted by John Cook at 8/29/06 2:43 p.m.

It certainly did. Thanks for pointing it out. They aren't saying much at this time about product direction, but as I point out in the post -- they certainly don't lack for confidence.

By the way, I think this is the fastest comment I have ever received on a post. I just posted a few minutes ago.

Any other thoughts on the Web 3.0 label?

John Cook

Posted by unregistered user at 8/29/06 2:58 p.m.

what can I say, your blogs have been gold for me during the past few months on new companies and what's going locally.........so I tend to check them out 3-5x/day.

BTW, we met briefly before at the TechCrunch Redfin event a few months ago. I thanked you then, and am thanking you again.

Cheers!

Posted by unregistered user at 8/29/06 3:31 p.m.

Web 3.0 is definitely a unique label. I read his definition of the term. only time will tell if the label truly applies.

Posted by stugotsn at 8/29/06 3:41 p.m.

There's no chance in the world that I'll ever ask my wife if she yapta'd something.

Now I'm going to be on the looking for the first use of Web 4.0...

Posted by unregistered user at 8/29/06 6:47 p.m.

That would be crazy, web 3.0, web 4.0, everyone will be trying to one up the other. The only time the web 3.0 moniker will stick is when multiple companies perform the same general theme. It will be a shame if people try to dilute or claim to be the first web 3.0 hype. I also agree with the other poster that "yapta" being a verb is ridiculous. Read this to remind you: (oh wait, right this is web 3.0 so it doesn't apply...yeah right) http://www.dead20.com/2006/07/16/11-suggestions-for-not-being-a-dot-bomb-20/

Posted by unregistered user at 8/29/06 11:14 p.m.

i love yapta as a verb ... i can even hear used in the lyrics of a song ;) ok, may be it doesn't oll off the tongue as 'google', but that verb has gotten very old (so has the company and its products, quite frankly). whether this will catch on as a verb, we shall see, but aiming high can only help.

thanks for covering this, john.

Posted by Galen at 8/30/06 1:25 a.m.

Sounds like Allsop is pretty decent at the "loud bravado and controversial statements" marketing strategy.

So a few questions - does that make Amazon a 3.0 company? In their case a computer recommends things for lazy people.

I look forward to the day when computers will "network with other people" for me.

Posted by buddah at 8/30/06 11:08 a.m.

So is that, YapTA, YapTA, YapTA... or Yadda, yadda, yaddda

I love the hype! iIt's so "Old School". I'm wondering now if I should tell folks we are opperating in "Stealth Mode" Is that like the Areon Chair of web 2.0? Or maybe the IPO of Web 1.0

Posted by unregistered user at 8/30/06 1:11 p.m.

"loud bravado" == "fatuous windbag".

Posted by unregistered user at 8/31/06 4:43 p.m.

Well, misterious Tom changes companies every year. Wish the yapta will survive longer than trend will become web 3.0 or Web N.0. At least those 750K will last longer in non-expensive city like Bellingham which is good news

Posted by unregistered user at 5/26/07 7:22 a.m.

my understanding is that WEB 3.0 is more about real world internet - that is to say when a grocery store has an IP address and the products on the shelves have IP addresses and on your way home you can enter a list of products into your mobile phone and it will send you a map of which products are where for which price and it will also send a message to your home to adjust the AC and double-check to see what is still in your fridge etc. I think we have a long way to go for WEB 3.0