Posts Tagged with ‘bubble-2.0’

So Bubble 2.0 isn’t news to anyone’s ears any longer. Talk of it is downright tired and redundant. So what? How 'bout we look it over once more, for kicks, m’kay?
The New York Times today published - on its front page, above the fold – a story delineating some points that back some solid speculation of an impending bursting (the bad kind) of the party balloon that is Silicon Valley and all its derivatives. I think they’re worth taking a [...]

Celebrity gossip is big on the web, as the success of Perez Hilton and TMZ.com has shown. That is why Anthony Soohoo, a former VP at Yahoo!, founded Dotspotter in January 2007.
Essentially, Dotspotter is Digg for celebrity news, photos and video, aggregating content from various celebrity websites and blogs.
Now, just 10 short months after its incarnation, it has been reported that CBS will become the new owner of the web service at a cost of $10 [...]

Facebook is big. And it's getting bigger. There’s no denying that. Each and every day there are lots and lots of people joining the network, slowly but surely helping to increase its founder’s alleged net worth.
And lots of outsiders following the non-stop activity within the social network have for months now been feverishly looking for ways to, for lack of a better phrase, make a whole heckuva lot of money for themselves off the mini-boom happening within [...]

Whether you question the viability of Facebook “apps” for the long run (I am) or really are completely gung-ho from concept to end product (I’m not), it doesn’t change the fact that some in The Valley are feeling quite bullish when it comes to stuff built with APIs proffered by Zuckerberg & Co.
By some, I mean the folks at the very public venture capital firm Bay Partners. As it turns out, they’ve gone ahead and established an annex fund [...]

People who study the Internet for a living have expended a good deal of effort arguing about its impact on the democratic process. Ever since Web 1.0 came along and changed the world, a popular line of argument has gone roughly like this: ?cyberspace allows people who possess relatively little power in the so-called real world to have their political voices heard in a more egalitarian manner on the Internet.? While the social promises made by a lot of Web 1.0 [...]