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Web2.0 Domain Names

Updated on December 21, 2013

What's in a Domain Name?

Web2.0 has been the latest trend sweeping the internet in both hype and functionality. One of the fun things about the unique web2.0 sites springing up every day are their unusual names. From Google to Zappos these web2.0 names that go well beyond normal keywords have really caught on for their memorability and brandability.

Web2.0 Name Types

While web2.0 naming trends will continue to evolve as users and technology advance the current naming trends can but grouped in to 4 categories.

> Made up Names such as Google and Kijiji

> Subdomain and extension hacks such as del.icio.us

> Using numbers for letters such as sigh7ings and R3M1X

> Spelling variations like Flickr and Muxtape

Please feel free to add to the lists below if you know of any web2.0 named sites not listed. Also vote for your favorites!

Web2.0 Reading - Be Creative and Make Your Fortune

Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity
Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity
The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them? If you need answers to these and related questions, you need this booka comprehensive and reliable resource that guides you into the emerging and unstructured landscape that is Web 2.0.Gottfried Vossen is a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany. He is the European Editor-in-Chief of Elseviers Information SystemsAn International Journal. Stephan Hagemann is a PhD. Student in Gottfrieds research group focused on Web technologies.* Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies* Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them* Offers how to basics presenting development frameworks and best practices* Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web
 
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations
Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today's Web. This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned "word of mouth" becomes hypergrowth.Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide demonstrates the power of this new paradigm by examining how: Flickr, a classic user-driven business, created value for itself by helping users create their own value Google made money with a model based on free search, and changed the rules for doing business on the Web-opening opportunities you can take advantage ofSocial network effects can support a business-ever wonder how FaceBook grew so quickly?Businesses like Amazon tap into the Web as a source of indirect revenue, using creative new approaches to monetize the investments they've made in the Web Written by Amy Shuen, an authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide explains how to transform your business by looking at specific practices for integrating Web 2.0 with what you do. If you're executing business strategy and want to know how the Web is changing business, this book is for you.
 
Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers
Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers
Web 2.0 is impacting nearly everyone doing modern web development. People know they need to understand what Web 2.0 is and why it is important. This book presents a candid look at Web 2.0. It provides perspectives and insights from industry leaders and industry leading companies. It presents the information from these innovators in a first person perspective in the format of interviews. The reader will learn about Web 2.0 from industry experts while obtaining in insights into where the experts and leading companies see Web 2.0 going in the future. Interviews include: eBay Microsoft Sun Microsystems Adobe/Macromedia YouSendIt IBM Bloglines Ning Technorati Zoho Richard MacManus: Web 2.0 WorkGroup & Read/Write Web ThinkFree To name a few...
 
Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0: Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth
Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0: Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth
Mobilizing Generation 2.0 is a practical and immediately useful guide for nonprofits, political campaigns, organizers, and individuals who want to better understand how to use Web 2.0 technologies. In easy-to-understand terms, this accessible book describes how readers can leverage new media—blogs, online social networking, photo- and video-sharing sites, mobile phones, wikis, online maps, and virtual worlds—to recruit, engage, and mobilize young people.
 
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
Web 2.0 has arrived--find out how it can transform teaching and learning!What is Web 2.0? Once upon a time, Web sites were isolated information "silos"--all content and no functionality. Today, the next generation of Web sites gives power to the end-user, providing visitors with a new level of customization, interaction, and participation. Many Web sites now allow users to upload, categorize, and share content easily. Weblogs and podcasts allow anyone to publish or broadcast on any topic. Wikis provide information that is constantly updated by the end-user. Open-source software is free and customizable. These new technologies are changing our relationship to the Internet.What can Web 2.0 tools offer educators? Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging Web 2.0 technologies and their use in the classroom and in professional development. Topics include blogging as a natural tool for writing instruction, wikis and their role in project collaboration, podcasting as a useful means of presenting information and ideas, and how to use Web 2.0 tools for professional development. Also included are a discussion of Web 2.0 safety and security issues and a look toward the future of the Web 2.0 movement. Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools is essential reading for teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, and teacher educators.
 

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