Having lived through the first Internet bubble I see as many differences with “Web 2.0″ as similarities to the madness of the ’90s. Still, this video from nextNY.org is too funny and timely not to share. So enjoy your tiny bubbles tonight, let’s avoid making another big one, and see you next year!
Archive for December, 2007
Bubbles Big and Small
Published December 31st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsThe Best of 2007
Published December 21st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Dust or Magic, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Project Management, Serious Games, Uncategorized, User Experience, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsI decided to publish a readers “best-of-2007″ list for my final post of the year based on a Google Analytics site report. Here are a dozen plus two of the best stories on this blog in 2007 (click on the title to go to that post) ranked by number of visits:
Games Meet the Social Web
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Free: The Past & Future of a Radical Price
Published December 20th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsI’m betting that like me, most of you didn’t attend Nokia World last month where Chris Anderson gave the keynote and a preview of his next book, Free.
For those who don’t know him, Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine as well as the author of The Long Tail (book, blog) on niche marketing. […]
Expected Consequences
Published December 17th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsThe Los Angeles Times reported this morning that several groups of striking writers are meeting with venture capitalists about funding the production of straight-to-the-web programming — independently of Hollywood studios and at odds with the union — a move not unlike the way United Artists (now part of MGM) was founded by Charlie Chaplin, […]
Totally Wired Webcast
Published December 16th, 2007 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsOn Dec. 12th the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hosted Totally Wired, a public forum at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge on how digital media is changing how young people learn and play, featuring:
Henry Jenkins, Professor, MIT, and author of Convergence Culture,will talk about his latest work on media literacy and skills young […]
The Web is Agreement
Published December 14th, 2007 in Culture, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsA client of mine called this week in in full crisis mode. It seems that while editing their WordPress blog using IE7 the site’s pages were transformed into a typographic nightmare and any attempt to re-format only made it worse. A quick scan of the user forums showed this is a known problem […]
SIIA Ed Tech Forum Wrap-up
Published December 14th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Serious Games, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsI’ve written summaries of most of the sessions at SIIA’s Ed Tech Business Forum including the two previous posts, below. Those that I missed were covered by Ileana Rowe, and all of them are (or will be) posted on SIIA’s website here: http://www.siia.net/etbf/2007/presentations.asp. The presentations covered myriad topics in the business of educational […]
Acquiring & Capitalizing on Innovation
Published December 4th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Educational Technologies and Emerging Technologies. 0 CommentsIn this second report from the SIIA’s Ed Tech Business Forum I’ve combined highlights from two lively panel discussions into one Q&A about how investors and publishers acquire and capitalize innovation. Though longer than my normal posts, the conversation is essential homework for anyone on the sell-side who is planning, pitching or negotiating an investment, […]
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