For me, it is about tools which actually work – making the browser effectively the front end of a full featured application. Bringing much of the desktop to the web.

As a Mac user since forever (first round was actually Atari ST and GEM), I think those who have been working within the Apple paradigm are particularly well-qualified to design and create the simple and limited interfaces which work well on the web.

Interesting notion about Google being Web 2.0. I would agree in principle but on a different ground. I would say their candidacy hangs on making all kinds of tools which work, not on their world-leading scraping ability.

An engaging sophism though, concerning scraper sites Web 2.0 status.

Thanks for stopping by, Ammon.

In terms of SEO, I’ve found that your strategic focus on helping clients businesses rather than their rankings has been a very successful paradigm. Rankings are important only insofar as they advance the client’s business. The greatest difficulty is for the client to understand and fully act on the potential we can create.

Thanks also to Mr. Young there for correctly identifying my personal website.

I also blog sporadically at the Fresh Egg Blog – link to freshegg.com – when I get the time.

I really enjoyed this post – there’s a certain irony to reusing ‘user contributed content’ and web 2.0 tools, since Tim O’ Reilly’s truest definition of web 2.0 is things that creatively use or rely upon community generated content. Google is web 2.0 because it takes community content (sites and data) and processes them to create new content.

Of course, this somewhat loose definition of Web 2.0 means that scraper sites are also very Web 2.0 :)