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10 Web 2.0 Ideas That Failed
- aswanson 18y agoI hope drawing out a 1 page article over eventually 4 fails.
- dshah 18y agoFor some reason, this is becoming an increasingly common pattern amongst the websites of "mainstream media". It's like they all got the same memo one Monday morning: Hey, if we break up our articles into 5 pages, we get 5X as many page views!
- ScottWhigham 18y agoEven if you don't like the page views metric, people are looking at "Time on site". Have to make a reader load a new page every 150 words will definitely increase that! I was reading a Perry Marshall book the other day and he talks about how there are five groups of people visiting your website: * People who will never buy ("Noes") * The No-Maybes * The "Maybes" * The Yes-Maybes * The people who will buy no matter how many barriers you put in front of them ("Yesses") The people reading all four pages of this article are the Yesses w/o a doubt. No casual reader wants to click, click, click, click, click, click...
- gaius 18y agoAye, people should link to the print version - single page, minimal graphics. The way the web was meant to be :-)
- alabut 18y agoLuckily, you can usually just hit "print this article" for a cleaner and single page version of the same article. Nytimes has a single page option in addition to the print version.
- jamesbritt 18y agohttp://www.fastcompany.com/node/923003/print http://www.fastcompany.com/node/923003/print
- TweedHeads 18y agoLive expo was a total failure. Good riddance.
- benjamincanfly 18y agoWhen the title explicitly declares the content of the piece, the content should adhere to whatever format is implied. I'm looking for 10 actual ideas that I can scan through, not 10 witty headers like "Get Off the Couch."