All the objectors are completely missing the point that's being brilliantly illustrated by this tongue-in-cheek site: MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT. There are hu

All the objectors are completely missing the point that's being brilliantly illustrated by this tongue-in-cheek site: MAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT. There are huge untapped markets because most web 2.0 sites are very, very niche, with a huge percentage overlap covering the same small Lispy HHGTTG crowd. Games mostly market to the same "kill some pixels" demographic, whether with guns or swords. If you want to talk "serious" business, you're generally talking appealing to a wide spectrum of people with diverse interests. So you have to look at the commonality of what people want -- access to information (Google), social connection (MySpace, Facebook, WoW). (WoW's actual gameplay is niche, but there just happens to be a large supply of 11-year-olds who want to kill monsters.) This hardly exhausts the possibilities! Mate, Spawn, Die: Pick any two.