Photo Credit: Gary Shaw I lamented over whether or not to write this post, but felt that it was absolutely necessary in order to stop any potential widespread panic after Dave Winer’s post that semi predicts the end of Bubble 2.0. According to Winer, “In the late 90s, we knew the end would come, and we knew what the end would look like — a stock market crash of the dotcom sector. So, if Web 2.0 is a bubble, and…
Are We Ready for Web 3.0?
www.3.0 Living in Silicon Valley has been an intoxicating and suffocating experience all wrapped up into a lavish party with gourmet food and cocktails poured through a block of chiseled ice. Everyday I live, breath, sleep everything two dot oh, and what started as a way of making the web more dynamic and interactive, is now one big pool of punch where programmers, marketers, and startup founders are the new rock stars and everyone wants to jump in to take…
Let’s STIRR Things Up A Bit – Web 2.0 Event Soars to New Heights, Part II
Part I of the STIRR 1.8 series featured the written wrapup report. Part II is our video report, complete with interviews. Alison McNeill was on hand to capture the excitement. Footage includes: Frucall Kongregate Krugle Liftopia Mycroft now Inchorus Swapthing Techdirt Video One – Rafe Needleman, Kongregate, Krugle Video Two – Liftopia, InChorus, Swapthing, TechDirt (note: turn your volume up) Congrats to Sanford Barr, Sean Ness, and Dan Arkind on the best STIRR yet. * The video project has been…
Google Tops $500 Per Share
Search leader, and start-up gobbler, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) surpassed the $500 mark for the first time today. This is a significant milestone which only took a little over two years to achieve – making its initial public offering of $85 per share seem like a bargain today. And, if you think about it, it really has been a meteoric rise for the pair of Stanford University graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to go from a garage to a…
