Blogs, Mashups, and Wikis: Tim O'Reilly's Blog O'Reilly Radar

I really liked this post by Tim even though it is almost a year old.  Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map talks about and shows a wonderful interactive map highlighting all of the Internet bigwigs and their strategic moves.  The map makes me think of my 8th grade Social Studies teacher and how he made us draw and redraw the European countries boundaries every time one invaded another during World War I and II.  But business is a very strategic game like chess it is especially important to think this way with something  as ever changing as the Internet.  One needs to think two moves ahead of your competitors at all times.  As one begins a foray into a new or less frequently explored aspect another company must either keep up or try to move past them.  He even talks about Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Google adding features in order to keep up with on another.  I recently read how Twitter is adding its own photo-sharing as well as video and pictures to searching.  Now previously used photo-sharing like Twitpics will have to adapt and add new features or be left by the wayside. The names used for the places that these companies are trying to rule on the map are quite clever and funny.  For instance; Land of Search, Union of Social Networks, Tropical of Bit Torrents, The Platform Plateau, and my favorite Land of Identity.  This post with its interactive map really helped me to better understand the Web 2.0 landscape.  It's a WAR out there!