I was wondering when it would all end for Web 2.0. Well the end has arrived. It’s 2000 all over again, but this time the nuke is pointed right at venture-backed, pageview-obsessed, ad-centric content plays. I just got an email from Jason Calacanis and its dead on. He states:
It’s my believe that the economic downturn will [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a serious problem with Apple’s “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads. I think the whole campaign incredibly deceptive and unethical. Its one of the main reasons I have never made the switch to Apple - and I have been tempted on several occasions.
Microsoft is finally fighting back. [...]
If you’re going to lay it all out on the line you had better make sure that your marketing claims line up with your products capabilities. Here’s a great lesson from Lifelock:
Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security [...]
Google brand equity. Someone thinks Google has the highest brand equity in the world. I disagree. If a better search tool came along you, me, and the rest of the world would dump them in two seconds. They may have “equity” given the value of the company but they have no real loyalty.
China has more [...]
I recently blogged about Podshow changing their name to Mevio. Its now official. The most telling part of the release is this line:
The makeover represents a shift from the “podcast era†to an era of premium, episodic Web content, the company said.
Translation: Podcasting is dead, the long tail means fail, and we’re going to try to get into something [...]
Watch for the announcement of a book burning party at your local Apple StoreÂ
One can only read into this statement as a directive from the supreme leader of the Ministry of Fruit. Its a good thing the New York Times is there to set the record strait:
“…when Mr. Jobs was asked two weeks ago at the Macworld Expo [...]
Web 2.0 is finally dying and the hold outs are trying to mask its death by calling our current state of evolution “Web 3.0.”
What are “they” saying? From Silicon Valley Watcher:
“Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Silicon Valley’s leading VC firm, has stopped investing in Web 2.0 startups.
‘We have absolutely no interest in funding Web 2.0 companies,’ [...]
If you have any insight into my questions below please feel free to educate me in the comments:
I thought Mac’s didn’t have the dreaded blue screen of death? Looks like thats not the case for some new Leopard installs. I haven’t seen a blue screen on a Windows operating system in about seven years. Maybe I’m [...]
Important notice: In the Summer of 2007, Speaking Roses filed for bankruptcy. The company’s intellectual property was acquired out of that bankruptcy by several of the former founders of Speaking Roses. Those founders then restarted the company as a new entity and are now trying to market Speaking Roses as a bizopp distributorship. Therefore, the Company discussed in the post below was the “old” [...]
Here’s a collection of my thoughts from this week.Â
The Generations Network
Word on the street is that The Generations Network or TGN (formerly Myfamily.com) is in trouble. They recently laid off 60 employees and canned Daren Thayne, their now former CTO. Turnover in the last year, especially among middle and senior managers has been high. The lay off [...]
