Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0

Here Comes Another Bubble – Hilarious

One of the least satisfying bits about my job is watching would-be Internetpreneurs come up and attempt to pitch the Next Big Thing, which is just like the Last Big Thing, just renamed and re-domained – with a bit of reflection added to the logo.

Such is the nature of the industry, I suppose, but with the exception of a few great leaps (Wikipedia, YouTube and blogging in general) – I find most of the crap touted under the Web …

Putting value into Social Networking, pay up Facebook

Great post on China Vortext regarding the Facebook Beacon service:

China Vortex: Facebook’s Beacon and Valuing Social Networks

Let me put it this way, I don’t think that there is a way to value social networks, even though this is what advertisers would very much like to see happen. And the reason that social networks cannot be valued in a top-down/corporate/advertising way is because they are entirely subjective and dynamic according to each individual at any given moment in time.…