Classifieds Going Web 3.0

by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 2, 2007

The latest industry going the way of web three dot oh is that of classifieds. We saw them go 2.0 with excellent sites like simplyhired and edgeio. Now people are starting to wrap applications and aggregators around this data.

This news comes with a couple announcements. Facebook is thinking about launching local classifieds, MySpace is thinking about a job board (do we really need another job board), and we may be thinking about doing something in that area (i love subtle hints).

Jeff Jarvis has a good line in his post, “Bye-Bye classifieds“:

Stage 1: They move from newspapers to new services, like Craigslist and Monster, online. Stage 2: They move into communities like Facebook and Myspace. Phase 3, yet to come: They are distributed, no longer in a centralized marketplace, and technology brings them together.

If Stage 1 is Web 1.0 and Stage 2 is Web 2.0, than Phase 3 will be the web-three-dot-oh-ification of the classifieds market.

What’s Web 3.0? or Web Three Dot Oh?

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