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- indiefan, on 10/10/2007, -5/+39this is dumb.
- unearth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Is this supposed to be reverse-reverse-satire or is it just a really useless article? Hard to tell.
- heartcoldfusion, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12How sad is it that he has to point out it's satire at the beginning of the article so that people 'get' it.
- fusama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I'm amazed at the number of people who obviously don't realize this is satire...even though it says so right at the top.
- maxborne, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Are you sure there is not even a grain of truth in the story you tell? Not even a grain?
- gnarnet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3i thought it was 640k
- AdamTReineke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3What the ***** did I just read?
And if its satire, isn't it supposed to be funny? - doctorcaligari, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dude, get over yourself. It was a satirical blog posting.
Obligatory Simpsons paraphrase: "Excuse me, but 'vertical markets' and 'leveraging'? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. .....[pause]..... I'm fired, aren't I?" - silvrrwulf, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4While Adblock will by no means kill the entire web, I can safely say I see so few ads while browsing most websites aren't making much money on me (or my family, or my clients, as I do computer repair and troubleshooting for a living). I'm not saying the entire revenue base will crumble, but you can bet your ass as these types of applications proliferate advertising will be "tweaked."
Think Tivo and someone's head popping up at the bottom of the screen as you resume your favorite program.
The market will adapt to meet these new challenges... but here's hoping it's not a subscription model of sorts. - Kwipper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I love this guy. DUGG!
- osbjmg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Do you think the people clicking and then buying the products are the same people who would go out of their way to block the ads?
- cheston97, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3What is interesting about this story? It's just bad satire. I know he understands the industry, but this article doesn't seem to realize that there's a difference between over-valuation and uselessness.
- sodomizer, on 10/10/2007, -7/+7Marc Andreessen is a genius!
- st3vo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1At first glance I thought this post might be about Irvine.
- sugarbabe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You're right, I didn't even finish it, what was that all about?!?
- joe90210, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2what an idiot
- jenpirante, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2It gave me a headache
- Morality, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0His satire bleeds into deranged ranting. Hating the filth that populates most bandwidth is one thing. Assuming its all filth is another.
Thumbs down. - podgey22, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Well text link ads are becoming worthless as Google (at al) skips over them.
- pleetonboy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Probably the same reason people digg Ron Paul articles.... they are delusional
- DangerCollie, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3Is this the same dirtbag who helped SCO put together their litigation strategy against IBM and Linux? Why are you promoting his crap here?
- jesusofnazareth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I wonder if they have RAID 5 built into this "bubble", though? That way, it won't have so much lag, if it goes down/bust. I think Marc is a little cynical, for whatever reason, and he should go back to attitude 1.0, the one he had back in the beginning c 93-95. I was there, then, and we WERE changing the world. If you're not busy, Marc, maybe, we could work on a NING mozilla browser, just for the heck of it, making it faster and better than anyone else's. Then, we could leverage some of these social networks for distribution. That's what these social networks are: distribution points. We're the content creators. Game on!
- jesusofnazareth, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Andreessen's syntax shows he doesn't have a clue. "bubble"? That's an outsider's term. People need to stop listening to him, already, and move on. He wasn't Netscape.
- Flare, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2In Soviet Russia, the bubble crowd breaks you!
- rootofunity, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2ok this guy def has no idea what he's taking about anybody pick up on this line?
"Shut 'em down and let's go back to the good old days: Windows ME...."
Thats all that needs to be said. Windows ME the good old days? lamer - eryximachus, on 10/10/2007, -8/+5This is the first interesting story I have read on Digg in ages. Marc Andreeseen is one of the few people who knows FIRST HAND what a tech bubble is all about. He was the first one to experience - and profit - from such a phenomenon. What is worse is his product was actually really useful, and really did change the world.
It all really is a sham folks, and it's all coming crashing down very rapidly - if only Marc commented on the bankster complicity in all of this. How much of that "venture capital" is really hard earned wealthy? Not much. All the supposed equity chasing big returns is money gotten from low interest loans that were created by DEVALUING the exiting money held by the American people. They took your dollar, made it worth 80 cents, and gave the rest to someone else so they could spend it on buying Facebook.
Follow the money all the way down the rabbit hole - you will shocked and afraid from where it really came. The days of a hard earned dollar being "invested" are long gone. - salinemist, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Read it again.
- scabbers, on 10/10/2007, -8/+4Did someone check the date on it? 1999
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1That is a grate big bubble.
- Blitzenn, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Wow, what a narrow vision. This guy broswes the internet and claims its dead? The b2b sector is finally flourishing in this area. There are a lot of vertical markets that can make massive efficiency gains by leveraging it. This is mainly between two verticals that interact with each other. There are a few (verticals) that are doing it now. That is the new market and yes there is a good chunk of cash being thrown at it and it is a good thing.
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