Web 2.0 : a strategy guide / Amy Shuen.

By:

Shuen, Amy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Beijing ; Farnham : O'Reilly, c2008.Description: xxii, 243p. : ill. ; 23cmISBN:

9780596529963 (hbk.) :
0596529961 (hbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

658.403 SHU

Summary: Featuring examples that highlight what Web 2.0 is and how it works in different business situations, this book illustrates how today's Web technologies and uses - exemplified by companies like Google - are changing the ways companies communicate, interact and make money.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	658.403 SHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	30026000073113
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	658.403 SHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	39002100515601
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	658.403 SHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	R17239JKRC
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	658.403 SHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	R17237YKRC
Standard Loan	Thurles Library Main Collection	658.403 SHU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	R17236XKRC

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide illustrates through real-life examples how businesses, large and small, are creating new opportunities on today's Web.

This book is about strategy. Rather than focus on the technology, the examples concentrate on its effect. You will learn that creating a Web 2.0 business, or integrating Web 2.0 strategies with your existing business, means creating places online where people like to come together to share what they think, see, and do. When people come together over the Web, the result can be much more than the sum of the parts. The customers themselves help build the site, as old-fashioned "word of mouth" becomes hypergrowth.

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide demonstrates the power of this new paradigm by examining how:

Flickr, a classic user-driven business, created value for itself by helping users create their own value Google made money with a model based on free search, and changed the rules for doing business on the Web-opening opportunities you can take advantage of

Social network effects can support a business-ever wonder how FaceBook grew so quickly? Businesses like Amazon tap into the Web as a source of indirect revenue, using creative new approaches to monetize the investments they've made in the Web

Written by Amy Shuen, an authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide explains how to transform your business by looking at specific practices for integrating Web 2.0 with what you do. If you're executing business strategy and want to know how the Web is changing business, this book is for you.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-236) and index.

Featuring examples that highlight what Web 2.0 is and how it works in different business situations, this book illustrates how today's Web technologies and uses - exemplified by companies like Google - are changing the ways companies communicate, interact and make money.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Foreword (p. ix)
Preface (p. xi)
Chapter 1 Users Create Value (p. 1)
Flickr and Collective User Value (p. 2)
Six Ways Flickr Created User Value Through Interaction (p. 9)
Why Sharing Can Be Profitable (p. 14)
Flickr's Cost Drivers (p. 18)
Calculating Company Value (p. 21)
Looking Back: Netflix's Different Challenges (p. 24)
Lessons Learned (p. 32)
Questions to Ask (p. 36)
Chapter 2 Networks Multiply Effects (p. 39)
Web-Enabled Online Network Effects (p. 41)
N-Sided Markets (p. 43)
Google's Combination of Network Effects (p. 47)
The Ups and Downs of Positive Feedback (p. 59)
Lessons Learned (p. 64)
Questions to Ask (p. 66)
Chapter 3 People Build Connections (p. 69)
Social Roles: Online and Offline (p. 71)
How Online Changes Social Networking (p. 73)
How Many Customers and How Quickly? (p. 77)
LinkedIn: The Rolodex Moves Online (p. 83)
Facebook: Introduce Yourself Online (p. 89)
Lessons Learned (p. 99)
Questions to Ask (p. 103)
Chapter 4 Companies Capitalize Competences (p. 107)
External and Internal Forces (p. 110)
Developing Dynamic Capabilities: Before the Web (p. 110)
From Online Syndication to Competence Syndication (p. 112)
Lessons Learned (p. 125)
Questions to Ask (p. 126)
Chapter 5 New Recombines with Old (p. 129)
Styles of Innovation (p. 129)
Integrating Ecosystems: Apple's iPod (p. 142)
Working with the Carriers: Jajah (p. 148)
More Recombinant Innovation: The iPhone (p. 151)
Lessons Learned (p. 153)
Questions to Ask (p. 154)
Chapter 6 Businesses Incorporate Strategies (p. 157)
Five Steps to Web 2.0 (p. 157)
Building Web 2.0 Business Plans (p. 164)
Look Around While Moving Forward (p. 172)
End Notes (p. 175)
Bibliography (p. 215)
Index (p. 237)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Amy Shuen is an internationally recognized authority on Silicon Valley business models and innovation economics, frequent speaker at industry conferences and venture capital events, and an award-winning strategy researcher. She's taught high tech entrepreneurship, strategy and venture finance to MBAs, technical professionals and executives at Wharton UPenn, Haas school of Business at UC Berkeley, San Jose State University, CEIBS (China Europe International Business SChool) and Ecole des Ponts and Ecole Polytechnique (France).