news.com — First, the gloomy view: The economy is slowing down and so what's up with the increasingly pointless me-too social-networking apps getting link love these days on Techmeme? They're cute, but outside of the echo chamber regulars, who really cares? Let's be frank: The world does not need another social news aggregator or online scheduling assistant.
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pedepyApr 26, 2008
spot on ... ill puke if i see another pownce happen. this market's saturated and its time to opt-out.
jab9990Apr 26, 2008
Someone should tell this guy about 'biting the hand that feeds you'. Nobody would be reading this crap right now without digg.
Closed AccountApr 27, 2008
No it wasn't.
jebudasApr 27, 2008
Somewhat recently, I wrote a CMS for someone that had them upload an image using a form, used imageMagick to resize and crop it, used php to write a temporary web page and CSS to use the new image as a background, then put a Flash swf over the background with a cursor that allowed them to create a thumbnail by making a square box around their desired area, then back to perl which created two new web pages on the fly. You couldnt do this before. The web is changing and new languages and tools are being developed separately but integrated together to enable amazing things to happen. Web 2.0 is the convergence of new tools and ideas which create a more dynamic, interactive, and productive experience online.
Closed AccountApr 27, 2008
f**k you for caring
binaryloopApr 27, 2008
Dugg up for using a word I'd never heard before. I learn something new everyday.
superroachApr 27, 2008
I remember even the google spokes person a while back who was jokingly asked about that. His response was coy, in that he doesn't see the term being a solid "ok we are web 3.0 now", but more a transition of a truely semantic web, one that can be viewed anywhere, with content that can be repurposed and seen by anyone.
atomicfireballApr 27, 2008
Ugh... buried for incorrect use of sobriquet. Sobriquet is not a synonym for nickname, it's specifically a nickname for a person. God, I hate people who look for unusual words in the thesaurus in an attempt to come across as smart, and then use the word without understanding the connotations (or in this case, the actual definition of) the word.
starkravingApr 30, 2008
I don't think there's going to be another crash, or if there is it won't be near as big as the previous one. The big difference now isn't about technology, it's about investors. There are still impulsive projects out there of course, but I think enough investors are savvy now and require more from a startup's business plan than just the term "IPO" that there will be more successes than failures. It took a while for the correction but I think the Bubble of the 90s was a good thing overall for the Web.