10 Habits of Successful Web 2.0 Sites

[This writeup was part of my technical sharing presentation that I was preparing for fellow infrastructure sysadmins]

#1 Contribute First
- Aim to provide a site that can contribute to user, free of charge.
- Share the data as much possible.

 #2 User-centered Design
-  Simple and ease of use is still important feature of anything, including Websites.
- Allowing customizations and personalisations.
- Collect users feedback(social understanding) and make the enhancements.
  
#3 The Web as Platform
- The web is the BIG platform. Use it!
- Accessibilty from any methods possible.
- Creating something that could be a potential platform or foundation for others, will definitely be a hit! (e.g Facebook)

#4 Crowd-sourcing
- Allowing user to participate and contribute. Even a small contribution, with millions of such contribution will eventually lead to a relevant website
- Focus on attracting people to contribute and share. The more people use it the better it gets.

#5 Rich User Experience
- Faster,lighter,less clustered, service oriented.
- Using AJAX, CSS2.0, XHTML, AIR

#6 Dynamic Content
- Plan and aim for the Web 2.0 services to be proactively growing and maturing. 
- With crowd-sourcing, web 2.0 can access and facilitate the dynamic content much easier than before.

#7 Mashup & Collaboration
- The power of networking and joining forces can be good. Combining two great web 2.0 applications will create a better Mashup applications.

#8 Power Decentralisation
- Web 2.0 is about people. The power is with the people. Allowing people to contribute, control and trust will be the way forward to grow the Web Ecosystem.

#9 Cloud computing - Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Elasticity and scalable.
- Platform independent

#10 It is all about the users.
- Users are the key component of any web 2.0 sites. Without them, the site fail.
- Make users part of the architectural framework.