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According to Seth Godin, this “internet thing” is just starting:

Here are ten reasons why I believe that there's about to be a significant flourishing of Net companies and business successes, not to mention extremely cool things for the rest of us.

Here's hoping that this holds true, finally. In my opinion, one of the keys to make this reachable for “the rest of us” is Seth's item #3 on his list:

You can launch most any online service with almost no custom programming. Changethis.com demonstrated to me how straightforward this has become. It also means that finding the world's greatest programmer is no longer a critical component for most services.

This is made possible by everything that is “Web 2.0″: blogs, RSS, aggregators, wikis, social software, mobiles, WiFi, etc. The promise of Web Services is starting to materialize in Technorati, Flickr, Google, Amazon, Bloglines. You can build many applications with little custom coding, reusing what's out there for free or for a small amount.

Couple this with ever decreasing costs for bandwidth and storage and you have the potential for growing really big on a shoestring.