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May 31, 2007
Euro Zeitgeist: The Art Of The Web 2.0 Clone
Why be original when you can be clever, might seem to be the thinking behind a lot of the new Web wonders - the social networks, the news aggregating/ranking sites, the digital media sharing/storage/ sites, and p2p money lending exchanges - well OK not that one.
(Image source: A partial view of several Web 2.0 logo collections published and annotated by Stabilo Boss in Flickr)
There's a good reason for that, the copycat or cloning phenomenon has a long tradition as this 7 year old press clipping, a retrospective on Germany's Internet hotshots of the time, on Earlybird Venture's website shows. We have the link below with comments from our mad annotator using a free tool from Fleck out of the Netherlands. 
What's changed since this article was written besides company logos being more bouncy and colorful than back then? Broadband penetration is on the up, the region's now wealthy Internet entrepreneurs are investing as angels and in some cases, like Wunderloop, competing with VCs; old media companies in Germany, France, and Netherlands are acquiring fledgling Web wonders, and many copycats are better technically, more feature rich, and user friendly than the US ones (whether the investment in quality will pay off is still not clear yet).
What hasn't changed? You tell us.
Read : Europe is awash in new money and new companies. A visit to the world formerly known as old.
Posted on May 31, 2007 06:21 AM | Posted to Being European | Permalink
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