Justin Laing

In response to Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web 3.0 arcticle, talked about on ajaxian:

It’s not as easy as Jeffrey makes it out to be to design and run an application that is used by masses of people. If it were then Yahoo, Google, eBay etc would not be paying millions to buy these products and user bases and everyone would be doing it. Some of the products may not be super complicated but they did take a leap of thinking (like del.icio.us).
It’s not like in the web 1.0 boom where people that had horrible business plans were getting millions of dollars of v.c. just because it was web or dot com. The products that are being purchased by larger companies have actual value to those large companies due to all the eyes they attract. You think the guys at Yahoo / Google / eBay didn’t learn from the last bubble? They were the ones that survived and thrived. I say if you can make a “thank you” card site that is so awesome that hundreds of thousands or millions of people start using it then you probably have created something of value, and today it is very unlikely that this fictional site would gain that sort of popularity without a very nice user interface.
Maybe I’m taking his article too seriously?