What is a User in Web 2.0? March 19, 2008
Posted by geoffwolfe in : On Topic , add a commentWhile we’re in private beta, we’ve been limiting the amount of users into MessageDance so we can gather good feedback from a semi-controlled group. When the time is right we’ll open it up and start to count users to demonstrate traction. In doing research as to what a “user” is in Web 2.0 services, it seems to be a very squishy term. It’s pretty clear that some companies count pretty much anyone who types in something into one of their webpages as a user. How else could a comment-enhancer for blogs have 325,000 users (back in June 2007)?
I got a chuckle out of Vimeo’s claim of 7 billion users which has to be an attention-grabber number only (it worked) since there are a couple billion less people on Earth. Wikipedia has them at a more down-to-earth number of 275,000 users.
It’s a wild time in Web 2.0 where many user numbers I see out there don’t pass the snicker-test.
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