In a highly revealing article in Business Week Online, author Bruce Nussbaum points out that according to a study by Bill Tancer, an analyst with Hitwise, most Web 2.0 visitors are a bunch of couch potatoes, with less than one percent of You Tube viewers (0.16%) actually uploading video to the site. And this is not just for Web 2.0 video sites. Flickr, the photo sharing site, only has two tenths of one percent of viewers actually uploading photos.

Rather depressing statistics for those who claim that Web 2.0 is THE revolution of the 21st century.

Web Strategist Jeremiah Owyang, currently employed as Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net, innocently decided to embark on a blog listing all the social networking tools out there on the market today…

As Jeremiah found out, this was easier said than done. Starting out with 8 companies, the list grew and grew as commentators to the blog brought more players to the table. The list currently stands at 41 companies!!!! And 87 comments!!!

Here are the contents of that list ( http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2...ing-platforms/) but have also posted them here for your conveniance.

My comments on the blog ( COMMENT 86!!) you will find at the end of the article.

This site was recently bought to my attention and I have to say that its impact on me was that great that I could do nothing but stare open mouthed at what was unfolding before my eyes.

Here is how they describe themselves :

The Attorney Generals of 23 different states sent a letter to Anheuser-Busch Cos., a well-known St. Louis-based brewer, “strongly [encouraging]” Anheuser-Busch to implement a more effective age-verification tool on its new Bud.tv site, which features “beer-themed shows, sports events and muscial acts 24 hours a day on the Internet.”

Apparently, these attorneys felt that asking for name, zip code, and birthdate to run a cross check against public records to verify the user’s age was an inadequate. They want other safeguards that could significantly dissuade people from continuing onto to the site and hampering Bud.tv’s marketing efforts; Bud.tv was the first .tv website ever advertised in a Super Bowl in February of 2007.

Check out the article.

http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003547293