Posts Tagged with ‘bubble’

The current economic crisis is already compared quite often to the Great Depression of 1930s. And while similarities are already here and probably we will have more of them to witness if the situation continues to worsen, there is one thing that bothers many of us here in the technology blogosphere - the future of [...]

I am not really all that superstitious - maybe not superstitious at all instead but today when I saw the International Herald Tribune article titled “President George W. Bush speech to the nation on the economic crisis” under the number 666 in my Google Reader I could not help but feel more than a little [...]

Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% of their stock options in each of the respective company. Eric has a great and insightful analysis of both companies and how these decisions could work out but to [...]

In the ongoing Internet war, we have Gen X/Web 1.0 refugees on one side, and Gen Y/Web 2.0 upstarts on the other. No matter where I turn, there is always some new debate about which one has done more; which one is a true bubble. The typical Web 2.0 defense goes something like this:
The big [...]

Are you reading The Drama 2.0 Show? If not, you should be.
One of the hard parts of blogging about Web 2.0 is trying to maintain a balanced view of the latest and greatest in web technology as a whole. Note that I don't say each news item or review, because there will always be good [...]

We’re hearing about the dawning of another dot-com explosion on a daily basis. The new bubble, as it’s being called, is full of Web 2.0 startups that are routinely receiving millions in investment cash, and 2007’s slated to be an extra good year for the tech sector as a whole, some even say too good. [...]

We’re hours away from 2007 and nary a list of predictions has cropped up here on Profy. What gives? Maybe our dubious overlords (I’m not sure what the secrecy clause in the contract said about mentioning the gods of Web 2.0 openly. Oh well.) have instituted a crack down I never received notice of. Or, [...]

With memories of the dot-com bust still fresh in investor minds, talk about the “Web 2.0 Bubble” is inevitable. Certainly, if you look at the plethora of me-too ventures in the pure social networking space, melt down seems inevitable. Most copy cat options are likely to end up in an internet graveyard, with a few [...]