I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I certainly have. With the sudden growth of Web 2.0, there have been some really *great* websites and services being pushed out to us.

Let me give you some examples.

Site24×7 (site24×7.com) is a fairly new website monitoring service from the parent company of the Zoho Office Suite. I happened to sign up for it a few months ago, while it was still in Beta, and while everything was still free-of-charge. Just a few days ago, it moved out of Beta, into a commercialized version. There is still a free option, but the features just aren’t the same.

Lucky for me and many others, I was recognized as a Special Beta User (most likely because I sent them my thanks in an email), and was given $200USD in credit. By toning down the amount my site is checked by a few minutes, I can continue at this level for over 5 years. For free. Great.

MediaMaster (mediamaster.com) is another new service, although this one has only been in available to the public for a few weeks. This one does what I’ve been dreaming for. It’s like an online version of iTunes. You can keep as many or as few songs on there as you want, and have them all organized.

This way, you can carry around your music everywhere. Say goodbye to clunky CDs, and hello to services like MediaMaster that let you listen to your tunes anywhere with Internet access. As the name is MediaMaster, and not MusicMaster, I assume that they will be adding other capabilities such as video in the future.

MediaMaster, like Site24×7, is *most likely* only going to share its full capabilities without cost for a short time. What I also don’t know is, if like Site24×7, certain people will be named Special Beta Users and be given free access.

You may be asking where I’m going with this.

This is the time to develop an innovative project if you have one of those “million dollar ideas.” If you check out the Web’s lead Web 2.0 website directory, Go2Web20.net, you’ll find new sites going up ALL THE TIME.

Like some of you, my “million dollar idea” isn’t exactly what they call Web 2.0. But it doesn’t matter. Many of the web’s future front-runners aren’t Web 2.0, and they’re starting right now–in 2007.

My “million dollar idea” is the International Database of Published Books (idbpb.org), where I am working with a number of people (and a lot of my money ;p) on creating an active database of books. You may say that my idea’s impossible, but that’s what they said about Wikipedia and the IMDb. While we’ve put in an area for book submissions (a little Web 2.0), we’re not a Web 2.0 project at all.

So, now, I invite you to tell us, your fellow webmasters, about what your “million dollar idea” is–that is if you’re currently working on one. Don’t give your possible ticket to Easy Street away!