guardian unlimited's seven wonders of the web ... in order:
1. google (yup.)
2. yahoo (yup.)
3. project gutenberg (uhh, ok.)
4. multimap (much better than mapquest.)
5. ebay (yup.)
6. amazon (well, ok.)
7. blogger (a bit premature, but yes.)
one major complaint i have is that they limit the "seven wonders of the web" to specific web sites and thus do not include meta-concepts or services. what about entire business sectors like "online banking" or "online travel?" they are just as important/wonderful to me as amazon.com or the lofty project gutenberg. those of us in nyc (and a few other lucky cities) might want to nominate the now-defunct kozmo.com to this list as well. (i really miss kozmo.) does being out of business disqualify you from making this list? finally, i wonder how long before a couple of these "wonders" are bought ... if yahoo is (finally) acquired, can they still make the list? if ebay buys yahoo do they get two listings? we'll see. ;-)
the seven wonders of the web
Guardian Unlimited
Thursday December 27, 2001
Saturday, January 12, 2002
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