Once upon a time, there was a dot-communism, the heady philosophy of the first Internet boom that contended that any business model was good as long as it involved doing it first and doing it on the web.
Of course, the bubble burst. And a host of folks who had predicted the flaming demise of so many dot-commers and spent their day posting to sites like F*ckedCompany lost a hobby by being right. Crap.
But then, everyone forgot about the bubble. Along came “Web 2.0″, and the irrational exuberance of TechCrunch, Web 2.0′s official cheering section. People are throwing money at little startups again. Stoopid money. “Convergence” is being used freely in conversations again. Google has replaced AOL atop the pyramid of hypercapitalized Internet plays. AOL is a “startaround” and buying web startups. Anybody with a hairbrained scheme, some Ruby on Rails code, a Facebook page and a web server can become a millionaire again.
It’s time to get snarky again.
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About Sean Gallagher
Sean Gallagher has been attached to a plethora of dead tree and electronic tech media platforms, including InformationWeek, JavaPro, Enterprise Developer, XML Magazine, Baseline Magazine, eWEEK.com, and TechTarget. He is the former editor-in-chief of Defense Systems, a defense technology magazine at 1105 Media, and the former director of IT strategy for Ziff Davis Enterprise. He is brushing up on his coding skills while he writes for NBC’s TechGoesStrong.com, TechWeb’s Internet Evolution, and various other sites and publications from a secure location in Baltimore, MD.
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