Comments on: Open Thread: Much-Needed Web 2.0 Makeovers http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/ The Business of Technology Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: floydculpin http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-828977 floydculpin Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:22:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-828977 <p>Hi, Please, tell me information,that is most popular about anything,but only legal and not adult. Thanks.</p> Hi,
Please, tell me
information,that is most popular about anything,but only legal and not adult.
Thanks.

]]> By: Joe Epistein http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91659 Joe Epistein Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:09:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91659 <p>Epinions.com.....in serious need.</p> Epinions.com…..in serious need.

]]> By: James http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91653 James Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:56:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91653 <p>If there was ever a website that needed a makeover and is insanely popular -- it is Plentyoffish.com. This company is run by one person (yes. One single person!) and claims to be the largest dating site in the world. I saw the owner on panel at a Social Networking conference in Miami -- couple seats down from Yahoo. He refuses to re-design.</p> <p>Is this the 'Craigslist' of dating?</p> <p>Can it successfully be redesigned?</p> If there was ever a website that needed a makeover and is insanely popular — it is Plentyoffish.com. This company is run by one person (yes. One single person!) and claims to be the largest dating site in the world. I saw the owner on panel at a Social Networking conference in Miami — couple seats down from Yahoo. He refuses to re-design.

Is this the ‘Craigslist’ of dating?

Can it successfully be redesigned?

]]> By: Jon http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91643 Jon Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:32:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91643 <p>Our website needs to be nuked and started again from the ground up - www.smith-nephew.com</p> <p>I just need to persuade people we need to just get on and do it!</p> Our website needs to be nuked and started again from the ground up - (link)

I just need to persuade people we need to just get on and do it!

]]> By: Sumit Chachra http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91649 Sumit Chachra Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:39:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91649 <p>For one I hate the southwest makeover (and will blog about it soon).</p> <p>It breaks the back button, takes longer to load and much like yahoo they've just changed the homepage. It basically makes my task of buying a ticket twice as slow as before... can't say thats a good thing</p> For one I hate the southwest makeover (and will blog about it soon).

It breaks the back button, takes longer to load and much like yahoo they’ve just changed the homepage. It basically makes my task of buying a ticket twice as slow as before… can’t say thats a good thing

]]> By: Anne Zelenka http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91651 Anne Zelenka Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:23:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91651 <p>I nominate the ZDNet blogs for a makeover--though I think they recently had one. It's almost impossible to read the threaded comments and the pages are cluttered and uninviting. It seems like it's more about the advertising and driving you to read other ZDNet stuff than about the great content.</p> <p>And as far as sites that DIDN'T need an upgrade, I nominate Yahoo! maps. Maybe I'm a luddite, but I like the old version better than the new and better than Google Maps. It's just cleaner and simpler.</p> I nominate the ZDNet blogs for a makeover–though I think they recently had one. It’s almost impossible to read the threaded comments and the pages are cluttered and uninviting. It seems like it’s more about the advertising and driving you to read other ZDNet stuff than about the great content.

And as far as sites that DIDN’T need an upgrade, I nominate Yahoo! maps. Maybe I’m a luddite, but I like the old version better than the new and better than Google Maps. It’s just cleaner and simpler.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91655 Om Malik Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:14:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91655 <p>I would volunteer Forbes.com as a candidate for Web 2.0 makeover. They really need to make the site more user (and not advertiser) friendly. aka find a common ground between usability and money.</p> I would volunteer Forbes.com as a candidate for Web 2.0 makeover. They really need to make the site more user (and not advertiser) friendly. aka find a common ground between usability and money.

]]> By: Matt MacQueen http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91657 Matt MacQueen Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:58:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91657 <p>http://www.businessweek.com could use some help, it feels about Web1.25</p> (link) could use some help, it feels about Web1.25

]]> By: Jacob Varghese http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91639 Jacob Varghese Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:05:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91639 <p>Mike, I love that Craigslist makeover.</p> <p>I'd have to say Amazon needs a makeover. It's the only site that I use regularly that I get frustrated with.</p> Mike, I love that Craigslist makeover.

I’d have to say Amazon needs a makeover.
It’s the only site that I use regularly that I get frustrated with.

]]> By: Deirdré Straughan http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91641 Deirdré Straughan Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:23:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91641 <p>My own. HTML tables are so old hat. But I don't have the money or in-house expertise (in da house there's only me) to do much about it at the moment.</p> My own. HTML tables are so old hat. But I don’t have the money or in-house expertise (in da house there’s only me) to do much about it at the moment.

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91645 Liz Gannes Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:35:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91645 <p>I guess I was assuming that if Craig and co. haven't been receptive to last year's suggestions by now it's a lost cause. At least they have RSS feeds.</p> <p>An eBay redesign, though!? Could you throw in a working search engine with that too?</p> I guess I was assuming that if Craig and co. haven’t been receptive to last year’s suggestions by now it’s a lost cause. At least they have RSS feeds.

An eBay redesign, though!? Could you throw in a working search engine with that too?

]]> By: Mike D. http://gigaom.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91647 Mike D. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:00:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/open-thread-much-needed-web-20-makeovers/#comment-91647 <p>Craigslist actually isn't exempt, believe it or not. You should have seen the Design Eye panel at SXSW last year where my bros did a gratis redesign for Craig. <a href="http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/000837.html" rel="nofollow">The results were stunning and great</a>.</p> <p>Besides that, I'd throw in some obvious choices: eBay, USA Today (even <em>with</em> last week's redesign), and 99% of all U.S. government pages.</p> Craigslist actually isn’t exempt, believe it or not. You should have seen the Design Eye panel at SXSW last year where my bros did a gratis redesign for Craig. The results were stunning and great.

Besides that, I’d throw in some obvious choices: eBay, USA Today (even with last week’s redesign), and 99% of all U.S. government pages.

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