As many of you have already seen, there are a number of new Web businesses popping up every day trying to be the ‘next big thing’. Analysts and reviewers like to group all of these types of companies underneath the whole web 2.0 umbrella. But I think there is something much cooler coming out of this whole thing, a revival of sorts.

You see, a lot of these companies are being created and run by small teams just wanting to create something new. Gone is the need for a full IT staff and marketing department. These guys do it all, and right out of their houses (sometimes parents houses). With the lower cost of broadband and computer hardware it only takes a few hundred dollars to be able to have the equipment to support thousands of users and these teams, turned companies, are taking full advantage of it. These new ‘Mom & Pop tech shops’ are allowing people the flexibility of working when and where they want, and having a great time doing it.

I’m excited to see the return of the mom & pop, albeit virtually. It has brought back the sense of community many of us are too young to remember. It is creating a new way of working and living in the world. Now we can live like a community as if we were neighbors while living countries away from one another.

[tags]web 2.0, community, mom & pop[/tags]