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October 15, 2004
Media Watch: NTKnow watches Web 2.0
The latest issue of that cheeky UK newsletter, Need to Know, offers an irreverent take on the recent Web 2.0 show in San Francisco, a refreshing change from the near hagiographic treatment some of the people and companies received in the local Silicon Valley press.
Here's the relevant item:
Currently residing in the "Where Are They Now?" file: Web 2.0 was a convention with a disturbing meld of the usual suspects and the usual convicts. Spruced geeks failed to recognize each other with trimmed hair and proper non-T shirts. Previously dapper VCs and analysts either dressed down, or were still living in their 2001 suit. Either way, they're not aging well - and these Golden Oldie Nostalgiafests can't be helping. In the end, gentle shock at how long it's been seemed to be the only reason for being here. The geeks, in their hearts, know there's no real money-making plan in what they're planning next. The VCs, deep in their blackened coal-pit guts, know the same. Still, didn't stop anyone on the old "Web 1.0", did it? We can't quite believe the entrepreneurs will be able to pull *another* blinder on the investing public, but stranger things have happened. And there is some hope in all of this: if you thought that hell would freeze over before the rich kids of tech would pay even lip-service to open licenses, fair use, and publicly stabbing Hollywood in the eye over the Internet, let alone using their *actual money* to do so, do bring a woolly jumper to Web 3.0: Yet More Hell On Earth. http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/polese/ - what the rigour of ten years hard work do: Polese then http://www.gsinstitute.org/about/directors.shtm - now. Dave Winer, however, remains scarily well preserved. http://www.bowblog.com/archives/000872.html - over here: a bit like they wanted to sell you timeshares
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Posted by Doug Millison at October 15, 2004 10:15 AM
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