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It's November 2006. So far the Web 2.0 bubble hasn't burst. Here's my attempt to put a pin-prick in it.

Don't know what Web 2.0 is? It's the notion that the ne

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

xt phase of web development is based on user-generated content. _You_ don't have to write it, your visitors will.

- You get a CMS (a Content Management System,

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

like PHPNuke).

- Users write reviews, blogs, forum posts (Webmasterworld.com).

- Search engines index this stuff (Google.com).

- Users tell their pals about

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

t (MySpace.Com).

- You spend a few thousand bucks, or a few million, depending on how good your chief coder is.

- The thing sells itself (Digg.Com).

- You ad

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

contextual ads (Google Adsense).

- Fire off a couple of emails a day, and bank your cheques.

For the small-to-medium webmaster, this can be the route to disa

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ter. Here's my experience.

See, I was in favour of user contribution. Gives people something to _do_ on a site. If it's any good, they'll tell their pals. More

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

traffic.

So I have chat rooms, a forum, a MySpace clone, a dating service, contact forms, ebooks, free software, the whole shebang. All humming away, all brin

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ing in links, all keeping my visitors amused and informed.

Only problem is, the set-up time. The maintenance. The customisation. The search engine optimisation

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

The hacking attempts. The anti-hacking. The bug fixes. The security updates. The swearing filters. The troll kicking. The screeching. The spamming.

More bandw

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

dth, more databases, more time, more money, more worry.

YouTube.com is a good example. Their business model is using pirated content. They have to police users

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

Bandwidth costs must be huge. Where's the money going to come from: ads in pirated videos? Gimme a break.

For any web business, the basic questions are:

- Wh

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

at makes the money?

- What helps make the money?

- Where is the net profit coming from?

Could your site be better served by static HTML pages which you updat

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

once every six months? If your site is purely informational, it's worth considering.

My epiphany came when first some Bahraini hackers clobbered a site of min

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

. I fixed it. Then some Turkish ones had a go. So I changed to a different CMS. So far, so good, until I realised I would have to constantly update this thing.

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

It then dawned on me that using a text-to-HTML converter (Text2html) and an index generator (dirhtml) meant simple text files could be turned into a basic site

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

uickly.

You write it, format it, tart it up in Dreamweaver, index it, FTP it and voila!; a mini site without the upgrade headaches.

A CMS has some handy featu

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

res, but pure HTML lets you sleep easier. Easier to move when the poop hits the air-conditioning, too.

Put it this way: which would you rather own when the Naz

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

s are closing in? Damien Hirst's 'Shark In A Tank' or the Mona Lisa?

I'm starting to think before I put stuff up now. Would simple HTML do just as well? Suppos

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

I have to move web hosts? Will I be able to find one that'll give me ten MySQL databases at the same price as my current host? And all the other features I nee

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

? (Answer: No, I've looked).

The first rule of computing is KISS; Keep It Simple, Stupid. With all the brouhaha about Web 2.0, I say, let’s hear it for Web 0.1

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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