So it's only a "bubble" if mom and pop retail investors are involved? But if venture capitalists are inflating a sector well beyond its revenue potential, then there's no correction up ahead?
I can't tell you the number of times I've stared in amazement at this latest crop of Web 2.0 startups that look, smell and sound exactly like their Web 1.0 counterparts. The basic underlying problems of generating critical mass, ad revenue, and basic business model stupidity haven't changed. The insane multiples that go into valuations haven't changed either: Consider that most brick and mortar businesses are valued at a small multiple (if any) of annual revenues, but web companies are still valued at a ridiculous 15x - 20x multiple despite their hilariously grim prognosis for survival. And the revenue strategy still seems to be "Selling the whole shebang" rather than "Earnings" (remember "earnings"?), and the vast majority of ideas don't seem to be new, or remotely defensible against competition (Barring of course absurd claims of intellectual property and patents).
If this isn't a bubble I don't know what is.
But then again, there's a sucker born every minute.
I have a killer dot-com business plan (Web 2.0, of course) if any venture capitalists want to give me a call.
This is OT, but has anyone played with the OLPC operating system? Holy jesus h. christmas that may be one of the worst atrocities of interface design I've ever witnessed. Somewhere along the way, someone clearly decided that kids in Africa needed a radical rethinking of the gui. And wow did they mess things up. Not only is it barely usable, but I was utterly lost and confused for a long while trying to make sense of their "intuitive" design. Unfortunately they tried to not only make it "hip", but they tried to give it a cohesive design schema which makes for very "cool" looking uselessness. As if the kids in Africa didn't have enough problems already, now we're throwing them a disaster of interface design which doesn't even teach them the common elements of Gnome, KDE, Windows or MacOS design. Ouch.
(If you'd like to try it yourself you can use Moka5 for a quick peek without having to do a full install.)
My head is swirling at this crappy deal. Something stinks here, and it pains me to see the NASA people bowled over by the Russians like this.
I think we should log a complaint against them for wiping away our limited budget on such things. But please people, this is nothing to make silly puns about -- afterall we're the ones getting pinched, and the Russians are getting flush with cash. I hope the media lights a match under this story. We need to clear the air.
This would be interesting coming from Valve, or Id or Blizzard or any of the companies that has truly expanded their individual genres through technological advances, or radical re-thinking of gameplay and strategy.
But Popcap? They make puzzle games that are derivatives of Tetris, and their games are better suited for widgets and free downloads than they are as stand alone titles.
For Popcap to whine about "copycats" would be like Bethesda complaining about all the other swords and sorcery RPG's out there. Not only are they pretending they invented the genre, but they're pretending they're the genre's leaders.
It should probably be noted that Microsoft also bought FolderShare.com (which is a very sweet little app).
The free-storage combined with FolderShare's file swapping is starting to paint an interesting picture... IMHO I wouldn't discount this as "trying to be like Gmail"...
... IMHO is the Nokia E61 which isn't available in the USA. (They can be had on eBay or purchased abroad).
Features: WiFi, VOIP, bigger keyboard than all Blackberry's and Treos. Having WiFi access on your phone for browsing and email is awesome.
Negatives: No touchscreen -- which as an ex-Treo user I thought would be a big deal. It's not. The interface is great, and completely tweakable with a zillion settings.
Winning? LOL. There's no "winning". It's virtual. There isn't really any winning. You're still paying $15 a month. That's the only 'real' number in the entire equation.
Which perfect world are you from? Firefox & Safari are miles apart if you work with Ajax or you're protecting against XSS. And there are loads of weird.js differences.
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So it's only a "bubble" if mom and pop retail investors are involved? But if venture capitalists are inflating a sector well beyond its revenue potential, then there's no correction up ahead?
I can't tell you the number of times I've stared in amazement at this latest crop of Web 2.0 startups that look, smell and sound exactly like their Web 1.0 counterparts. The basic underlying problems of generating critical mass, ad revenue, and basic business model stupidity haven't changed. The insane multiples that go into valuations haven't changed either: Consider that most brick and mortar businesses are valued at a small multiple (if any) of annual revenues, but web companies are still valued at a ridiculous 15x - 20x multiple despite their hilariously grim prognosis for survival. And the revenue strategy still seems to be "Selling the whole shebang" rather than "Earnings" (remember "earnings"?), and the vast majority of ideas don't seem to be new, or remotely defensible against competition (Barring of course absurd claims of intellectual property and patents).
If this isn't a bubble I don't know what is.
But then again, there's a sucker born every minute.
I have a killer dot-com business plan (Web 2.0, of course) if any venture capitalists want to give me a call.
This is OT, but has anyone played with the OLPC operating system? Holy jesus h. christmas that may be one of the worst atrocities of interface design I've ever witnessed. Somewhere along the way, someone clearly decided that kids in Africa needed a radical rethinking of the gui. And wow did they mess things up. Not only is it barely usable, but I was utterly lost and confused for a long while trying to make sense of their "intuitive" design. Unfortunately they tried to not only make it "hip", but they tried to give it a cohesive design schema which makes for very "cool" looking uselessness. As if the kids in Africa didn't have enough problems already, now we're throwing them a disaster of interface design which doesn't even teach them the common elements of Gnome, KDE, Windows or MacOS design. Ouch.
(If you'd like to try it yourself you can use Moka5 for a quick peek without having to do a full install.)
...who wins when the computer plays itself?
This isn't a bug in the latest flash plugin... only older ones.
I for one love the fact that Flash still represents one of the few uniform platforms on the interweb
with extremely limited cross-browser issues.
Blog: Idiot-proof WYSIWYG toolset for those incapable of usng HTML, FTP and other standard web technologies.
ie: Morons invaded the web approximately 10 years ago.
"Whoever has deeper pockets wins."
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Not true. (Let's call your argument the "neo con" argument.)
The people who actually win are the people who can't be controlled.
(We'll call that the "Iraqi" argument.)
Internet Radio will morph into P2P streaming and offshore stations. It's not going anywhere.
The only thing that's going away is the last hopes the record labels had to profit from it.
Foot, meet bullet. Information wants to be free.
Billing for service (and for backbone usage) is coming, and coming fast from a thousand different directions.
The question you should be asking is this: How much would email and internet access have to cost for you to stop using it.
Because the answer is scary. And the big corporations know it.
They just need to figure out some way of creating a vacuum up there in space....
My head is swirling at this crappy deal. Something stinks here, and it pains me to see the NASA people bowled over by the Russians like this.
I think we should log a complaint against them for wiping away our limited budget on such things. But please people, this is nothing to make silly puns about -- afterall we're the ones getting pinched, and the Russians are getting flush with cash. I hope the media lights a match under this story. We need to clear the air.
Isn't the whole place "Deadly"?
How quaint. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I wrote by hand.
This would be interesting coming from Valve, or Id or Blizzard or any of the companies that has truly expanded their individual genres through technological advances, or radical re-thinking of gameplay and strategy.
But Popcap? They make puzzle games that are derivatives of Tetris, and their games are better suited for widgets and free downloads than they are as stand alone titles.
For Popcap to whine about "copycats" would be like Bethesda complaining about all the other swords and sorcery RPG's out there. Not only are they pretending they invented the genre, but they're pretending they're the genre's leaders.
It should probably be noted that Microsoft also bought FolderShare.com (which is a very sweet little app).
The free-storage combined with FolderShare's file swapping is starting to paint an interesting picture... IMHO I wouldn't discount this as "trying to be like Gmail"...
... IMHO is the Nokia E61 which isn't available in the USA. (They can be had on eBay or purchased abroad).
Features: WiFi, VOIP, bigger keyboard than all Blackberry's and Treos. Having WiFi access on your phone for browsing and email is awesome.
Negatives: No touchscreen -- which as an ex-Treo user I thought would be a big deal. It's not. The interface is great, and completely tweakable with a zillion settings.
Runs great on T-Mobile.
Winning? LOL. There's no "winning". It's virtual. There isn't really any winning. You're still paying $15 a month. That's the only 'real' number in the entire equation.
Push a button a hundred times... wait for the payoff.... DING. Yay!
If anyone thinks there's a difference between gambling and WoW they just don't understand either....
Really? And you know this from where? Apple PR? LOLz
Let's count the previews that mention this massive issue for serious users of email.
I can't find ONE.
... I mean, what else is there to do anyway?
He doesn't mention one of the most famous SciFi solutions: Rama.
(Think the giant cylinder from "Starcross" for a similar interactive-fiction version)
20 generations in space is do-able if the craft itself is large enough and well equipped enough to be a habitable world.
That's the second time this week!
Huh?
Which perfect world are you from? Firefox & Safari are miles apart if you work with Ajax or you're protecting against XSS. And there are loads of weird