Google is launching a Public Data tool. I see hard times ahead for Swivel, the self-proclaimed YouTube of data. Life is hard when Google comes charging your way…
10 years after the dotcom bubble burst, the NASDAQ is still worth less than half of what it was (supposedly) worth back then. And yet, we’re still crazy after all these years :-)
I find it hard not to agree with Brian. Simply put, if your business is based on annoying people with ads, that’s your problem — not our problem. We can do without ads.
As your data, your contacts, pics and life reside more and more in the cloud, someone had to step up and provide a way to back them up. Backupify is the Iomega – or the Dropbox, if you prefer – for your web2.0 lifestyle. And its founder is brilliant.
You log out. “So, you’re leaving?” Take us on on your mobile! Smart.
The capital of Kansas is now called Google, Kansas. Remember Half.com, Oregon?
Movie reference: Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.
What a great post! (even though I’m not sure I agree that quitting blogging is a good idea for Fog Creek Software). Most “web2.0″ company blogs do indeed look like the press releases dotcoms were sending out a decade ago. Now, isn’t that surprising? ;-)
So: is this really where we’re at? Is this the best we can do? You gather a bunch of followers, and then spam them with a nice, web2.0, 140-character message saying:
“double whopper plus fries for only $1.99 at a McDonald’s near you”
You gotta love this! It’s like email spam marketing, but for the web2.0 crowd! ;-)
So, Twitter is going to launch an advertising solution, because…
People are constantly “talking and engaging with brands, sharing their feedback” [...] “What if brands start to participate?”. He added that the company will make it “explicitly clear that a sponsor” paid for the ad, and make it “relevant and useful, so the user doesn’t think of it as an ad”.
Now, how many times is this whole thing wrong and screwed? People talk about brands and share their feedback, and companies should jump in with… ads? Was somebody complaining about there not being enough ads? Really? And the ads will be clearly marked as such, and yet so useful that the users won’t think of them as ads (?).
Now, listen up, Mr. Marketer. If people are talking about your company and your products, the only way to participate in the conversation is to talk back. To let people in your company freely talk back about your products and services and their problems and what you can do about that. Any other “solution” will do more harm than good.
And while you’re at it, please check out The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
Stop dumping every one of your feeds into another account. Use each service for what it is or for what you think it should be used, or don’t use it at all. Stop spamming.
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