In Saturday's Weekend supplement, The Guardian's John Lanchester tried to get to grips with "web 2.0" and met with some of it's movers and shakers. Some of those interviews have been published as podcasts but, sadly, there isn't a full list of them anywhere other than the technology index page which will probably update with new content soon, making the audio impossible to find.
Any chance someone over there can fix this oversight by publishing a full list, with links, on a single page somewhere? Here's who they've got...
Because they didn't publish a full list, with links, on a page that could be easily and permanently linked to, I grabbed their source code, cleaned it up a bit, and am providing list of the Guardian's interviews below:
Thanks for that Robin, very helpful.
I know last.fm and Bebo have a touch of the UK, but I wonder if it is too late for the UK to find a spot on the web 2.0 map???
The list is dominated by US start-ups and I wonder if the Guardian tried to feature some UK equivalents but struggled to find any.
Posted by: Craig McGinty | 07 November 2006 at 05:21 PM
Yes, very helpful - thanks. I've been meaning to read the interviews and your list of links will make it a lot easier.
Posted by: Joanna Tidball | 07 November 2006 at 05:28 PM
Perhaps they did try Craig. You're right about it being a difficult task. Friends Reunited might be on a potential list but classmates.com, the American equivalent came first. Perhaps the supermarket websites - never heard of anyone ordering their groceries online, at least not in any scale, in other countries. Etribes would probably want to be on the list too but other than some pretty impressive venture capital backing I haven't heard much about how things are going - but then, I wouldn't necessarily hear anything.
Joanna, thanks for the comment. I was a bit annoyed that the Guardian didn't make it easy to link. I don't have time to read and listen to all that content today and figured it might disappear soon, which is why I made the list. I wish they would have thought of that!
Posted by: RobinH | 07 November 2006 at 05:41 PM
Who knows where web 2.0 will lead ultimately (maybe 3.0?) but the pace seems to be set by creative individuals who then are fueled by big companies who simply buy them out!
Paul Hurst
www.paulhurst.blogspot.com
Posted by: Paul Hurst | 07 November 2006 at 07:31 PM
Oh, I'm too late:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/page/0,,1939196,00.html
Posted by: Alexander | 07 November 2006 at 09:21 PM
Blush...thanks for doing the hard work for us. Better yet, we should have just added these in our tech blogs and used microformats to add them to the RSS. Thanks for prodding us to be better Robin.
Posted by: Kevin Anderson | 07 November 2006 at 09:37 PM