Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a finite number of social networking or selling websites that the world needs. Here is a collection of the eight kinds of websites that absolutely don't need to be made anymore. I'd add dating sites and anybody who uses pop-up ads myself, but I think that would eliminate half the Web.

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Good thing the editors don't read the stories

[damn_registrars]

If the editors read the stories before posting them, they would have realized that the last item on the list describes the most recent slashdot initiatives...

Re:Good thing the editors don't read the stories

[PopeRatzo]

There's more to this, though, I think. We're going to be hearing a lot more about how "websites don't need to be made any more" and how it's not the presence of individuals on the web that really adds value.

There are very rich and very powerful forces that would like the Internet to become nothing but a commercial vehicle for the largest corporations. We're going to hear about how there's really no value in somebody making "another blog" and we're going to hear a lot of aspersions cast upon people who put up content without it being connected to business. Oh, certain big blogs are OK, because they drive eyeballs, carry advertisement and push opinions. Gizmodo: good. - Wired.com: good - Wikileaks: very bad

Re:"the cloud"

[MrEricSir]

Are you kidding? Cloud computing can synergize your enterprise assets!

Wait a minute

[$RANDOMLUSER]

but I think that would eliminate half the web.

You say that like that's a bad thing.

Re:Wait a minute

[Minwee]

but I think that would eliminate half the web.

You say that like that's a bad thing.

I think the correct phrase is "but that would eliminate _only_ half the web".

Let me add #9

[maxwell demon]

Web sites which consist of a list of the top n things the author thinks are good, bad, useful, useless or whatever.

2 articles that don't need to be posted anymore

[Rotten]

1) "top 8 things" style articles
2) articles about apple loosing stuff

#4 Registering for an account

[Stiletto]

#4 hits it out of the park. STOP making me register for your site! I already have hundreds of passwords--I don't need to remember another one from your crappy web site!

Re:#4 Registering for an account

[AndrewNeo]

There is another alternative. It's called OpenID, and it works great. Sites just need to implement it.

Re:I know one more

[corbettw]

I think it's just a problem with the CSS on Idle. If you remove "idle." from the URL it uses the default CSS, and everything looks normal again. Almost annoying enough to see if there's a Greasemonkey script to replace the Idle CSS with normal CSS on the fly.

Facebook instead ???

[hey]

So there is no need to make signup because Facebook connect can do it.
No need for a another status update side because Facebook can do it.
No need for a "next facebook" because Facebook can do it.
Wrong!

Facebook is far from perfect. We should totally work on replacements.

Re:"the cloud"

[roman_mir]

but can it utilize revolutionary interfaces to productize cross-media e-services to mesh extensible niches which helps to incubate end-to-end communities and to drive sticky functionalities while scaling collaborative systems in an effort to monetize open-source convergence?

We are all about transitioning value-added web-readiness here.

My favorites...

[Lumpy]

Website that make you log in to even view things.. WTF is that? A members only club that anyone can be a part of? You know how many of those sites have bugmenot logins? your site is a failure, stop being a power freak, You wont get my real email address anyways...

A Website with those damned popups when you roll over a word... OMFG! I want to physically harm the guy that runs that site that has those.

Sound of ANY KIND.. a pop up of your ugly face talking to me in flash? I dont think so. It's not neat, its not cool. It's dumb and makes me want to never go to your site again.

Funny site...

[Arkham]

I'm sure I've been living in a hole, but that site has some seriously funny stuff on it. Examples that made me actually laugh out loud:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_suck

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

Dating?

[ktappe]

I'd add dating sites

Let me guess...you're married? Funny how as soon as one person's needs are met, they no longer see a need for anyone else to have access to services that would supply them similarly.

OpenID

[tepples]

I have a Launchpad account, which I use as my identifier on a few sites that take OpenID. But one problem in practice with OpenID is that a lot of web sites are OpenID providers (sites that issue identifiers to users) but not as many are relying parties (sites that accept other providers' identifiers). And what prevents a spammer from setting up an OpenID provider and generating an unbounded number of plausible identities?

Cloudy since the mainframe days

[tepples]

Really? In the 1980s I could call up any number of virtual servers on the fly for a few dollars per month?

Cloud computing in the sense of buying time on a time-sharing computer system has been around since the mainframe days. Cloud computing in the sense of relying on an application service provider has also been around since the mainframe days.