Great web2.0 youtube video

Too good to write about, just watch and enjoy.

Which Superhero are you ?

Found a great new site today, well I suppose it’ a bit of fun in the office with your mates. It’s a site that based on data you enter will tell you which Superhero you are most like.
We can all dream that we have super powers, 13.5 million have already used the site, but I am yet to see anyone fly through the sky, create ice on demand, set fire to anything etc etc

If you have loads of time on your hands then check out Jeff’s Baker’ main site which allows you to also look up your super villian,  Star Wars character and more.

Guess who I am 

Building Social websites - target, drive, grow, earn

Found a great article detailing some of the larger well known web2.0 social websites and how they started which was initially towards niche markets.

http://bokardo.com/archives/starting-a-social-app-find-a-niche-and-work-outward/

I did post a comment on the site but thought it was worth discussing further

Target
From the outset if you target a particular market or niche it should help to define your scope and keep you in reality. Rather than trying to target everyone and never being able to actually develop and deliver anything. Aim to provide for your niche and not everyone. This should also allow you to focus on potential revenue streams aimed at your niche market instead of just trying to build something big and hoping the revenue follows.

Drive
Next get out there and get involved and interact with the user base. If your passionate and driven about what your are doing your user base will see and feel part of something. This should add loyalty and help build a community.

Grow
From here you should hopefully start to see a community build and grow organically, hopefully if you are doing things right from word of mouth and other websites talking about it.

Earn
Hopefully if you are doing things right and planned from the beginning you should now be able to start hooking into potentially revenue streams.

You should hopefully have a growing community and a website with a sense of purpose providing a valued worthwhile service to loyal users (don’t think I’m ready for Corporate life and big profits lol)
There is also some similar information over at 37signals in the ‘Getting Real‘ publication.

My ASP

Whoooa ! I am now officially an ASP; providing, managing and supporting a variation of some web software I have written.

I’m hosting a white label of one of my applications, which is an online golf handicap website, for a large UK magazine publisher.
I suppose I’m not a large scale ASP offering services to loads of companies but it’s pretty exciting for me.  Great start for 2007 !