Customization. Create your own. Build a better mousetrap.
The tools are everywhere, with new ones magically spawning out of thin air every day. Trying to keep up with Techcrunch and Mashable is getting harder by the minute (kudos to both for their relentless coverage of what’s new in web 2.0).
Ning comes out of the shadows - [...]

Every now and again, someone nails web 2.0. Value is created and it grows. It grows like weeds.
They have a map mashup. They integrate with Yahoo Real Estate, never a bad move. They then add a cool mobile application that lets you check out the price of the home you are a dinner guest at. [...]

Netflix works. Not much else to say about it. As Cuban has mused, it really doesn’t seem like someone hawking downloadable movies (AOL or iTV anyone) is going to unseat them anytime soon. Evertime I visit Netflix to update my queue, they seem to have a new feature that makes the whole website experience that [...]

Stowe Boyd is out on the edge… way out there. He says:
edglings are changing the marketplace by weaning ourselves from dependency
Ok, I’ll buy that to a degree. We’re talking a minimum of 1% of the people here. Is that enough to “change the marketplace”. The argument can be made that the little edgelings (hey, [...]