Posts tagged as: humorThere's a fine line between clever and stupidPosted on Saturday, April 1, 2006
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And so far this morning every attempt at April Fool's Day "humor" I've read has landed on the wrong side. Yes, we get it. Yahoo bought Web 2.0. Scoble quit Microsoft. LOL. ROFL. Tags: humor
Has the snark bubble burst?Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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While some bloggers are gleefully citing a one day drop in stock prices as proof that the Web 2.0 bubble has burst, nobody is noting the more serious decline in the level of snarkiness. Is this the best Supr.c.ilio.us can do? "I said it before and I'll say it again. This is no way to build a bubble, people! Shake it off and let's make with the hype! We need focus, we need belief and we need to drink more of that Koolaid (mmm... cherry!)." That's not snark. That is just lame. And what about my beloved GFY? Without Richard M. to kick around, they seem lost: "Is it me, or does the overall quality of the wordpress blogs seem to be inversely proportional to the number of them? Wow, observational humor. Boring! The real canary in the mine is the loss of snarkiness. It was the yin to Web 2.0's yang. If there is nobody ripping companies like Flock a new one, then maybe nobody cares anymore. I liked wordpress a lot more when one needed an invite to join." Fresh snark meatPosted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005
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The Web 2.0 snark space was starting to fade, but I now have a new source. AOL, after months of extensive market research on the effects of the walled garden model on the distribution and consumption of interactive media, will rotate its logo by another 90 degrees. Chairman Dick Parsons will boast that the new logo “reflects the new direction of our company,” but founder Steve Case will make an impassioned plea in the New York Times to break up the logo into a circle and three triangles. ( via Flock Sucks ) Tags: humor
Google paranoia knows no limitsPosted on Friday, December 16, 2005
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This interview with Larry Page in 2038 is best discovered in an RSS feed filled with headlines about Google killing industries with every move. (via Inside Google) Finally you can satisfy your general counselPosted on Monday, November 21, 2005
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Why blog?Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005
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Web 2.0's greatest contribution to society may be in inciting people to greater heights of snarkiness. I didn't even know snarkiness was a realy word, but there are 103,000 Google entries for it, so it must be. Web 2.0 Backlash or Schtick?Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005
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Two of my favorite Web 2.0 blogs play the role of guardians of the web from the legions of hype-spewing VCs, but I think that is more of an act than reality. Without stupid 2.0 names Go Flock Yourself wouldn't have anything to write about. Witness this rant about Zoozio: A single page was placed on a new site with yet another cutesy-assed Web 2.0 name (albeit a subpar one -- was z.oozi.us already registered or something?). This page contains not even a lick of content, yet its arrival was picked up and heralded as "news" in the weblogs of an enormous bunch of delusional and self-absorbed nitwits and clowns. And Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog seems more like a collection of wannabes rather than real critics. Still, they are both worth reading for a laugh.
Now I know where these product names come fromPosted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005
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Product names have always been a mystery to me. I thought Yahoo! and Google were absurd, but that was before Web 2.0 names like Zimbra and Ning appeared. Om Malik has discovered the source of these names: Andrew Wooldrige's Web 2.0 name and business plan generator. I used it to create my next startup, Squioliki: web-based auctions via Ruby on Rails. |
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