« What is "Freedom to Connect"? | Main | Search marketing » Dispatches from BlogistanSuzanne Stefanac's Dispatches from Blogistan will be released any day now. Suzanne interviewed me for the book; the interview's posted at the site. The Internet’s becoming a massive operating system with all kinds of data accessible everywhere. Consider the evolution: we had machines that weren’t connected, then we connected them, then we created something like ftp to share data, and engines like Archie and Veronica to find what data’s out there… then gopher to index it, and html/http so you could publish and link. Now we have the semantic web and the collaborative approach (under the label “social software” and “Web 2.0”) so that, as you say, the information topography is fluid, spontaneously and socially defined. The best strategy is adapt is probably humility, because there’s so many smart people in the game. The dumbest strategy is greed, and what goes with it – we have people trying to build “Web 2.0” sites without any clear idea what that means, for instance, because that’s the wave and they think they’ll make a million or two riding it. However it’s going to be harder and harder to make big money building any kind of business, and it’s back to what I said before – there’s so many smart people. So many will build compelling operations (maybe for-profit, maybe non-profit). Many of those folks won’t be greedy, they’ll be willing to work for bread on the table and a reasonably good life. jon posted this at 10:19 AM |
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