Some interesting charts from the Pew Internet Project.
They show that photobucket, very much a socially integrated, web2.0 photo sharing service, is kicking the arse of Kodak Gallery. Photobucket allows easy posting of photos to blogs and other sites, whereas flickr doesn't (which I discussed briefly before). Photobucket also combines video hosting (like YouTube) which seems to be a natural partnership allowing people to keep all their images still or moving in one place. Photobucket doesn't have ratings or interestingness features like flickr or YouTube - so it'll be interesting to see how it fares longer-term against these sites.
The difference is even more dramatic when you compare the child of web2.0 Wikipedia with its corporate (though also free) cousin Encarta. It's worth noting that MSN's Encarta doesn't have an entry for web2.0, whereas Wikipedia has a very full entry on the subject, which illustrates nicely why one is become the default information resource and the other is languishing.
The rise of myspace, as the old model of entry to internet communities promoted by Geocities crumbles, shows the importance of direct, personal connectivity to the new generation.
Encarta and Geocities were always digital/online enterprises, and yet they are still struggling in the changing web environment. It makes you reaslise what a job offline brands have to make themselve relavant in the web2.0 world.
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