You’re talented, surrounded by technologists and designers. All are forward thinkers and aware of the Web2.0 hype and it’s services. So should you just start a Web2.0 company and hope you’ll get the big bite? Well, it’s different in our world in this region (Middle East) but do able!
The story starts like this. AJaX is banging, new technologies and techniques have arrived to the market. The tradition of having everything on the web is at its best and running fast. Web based office applications and software are rising. But hey, did you hear some people saying Web2.0 is dead? Well, in all the cases a shiny logo, and a vector based website with big fonts and big form input-textfields wont get you there would it?
Are you going to make a service that makes someone life’s easier? Or are you going to make some web-app to say hey, we made it too and pollute the web and the blogosphore?
The rule of thumb: Never make a “yet another something”
- What are you adding to the list of the apps available?
- Who is going to benefit from it?
- The bottom line, is it rewarding at least for the hours of work?
These and more would be questions I’d ask myself if I ever wanted to start a service with colleages.
How much can we afford?
The biggest problem with starting a Web2.0 service in this region would be the internet connections and the ISP. Specially for hosting.
Suppose your application makes it and you get it to your users, who’ll pay the expenses of your lease lines and static IPs? In case you needed a mirror or a web-chain or load-balancing how are you going to acheive it with your managed hosting? Since it is really expensive. And I mean it! It’s expensive!
When I think about it it just makes me sick imagining the load-balanced server farm and database slaving and the whole session sharing and a whole bunch of big issues with high load applications. It just fries my mind when I go into it’s details. Many times me and my colleage Mohd Jassim discussed ideas and new services that would be practical and innovative, but then again ending the happy story with the limitations of our internet facilities. Dynamic IPs and expensive bandwidth for business use.
Well, to conclude I want to add that Web2.0 apps are no more Web2.0 apps. They’re solutions that are no more named/tagged under Web2.0, not exactly put like that 
So to Web2.0 or not to Web2.0 in Emirates?
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1 Anil wrote:
i agree its expensive but the biggest problem is that its so hard to find some good partners to talk the talk with and stick togehter until someting works out