Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the week's big news from the space, in scan-friendly format.
This Week:
- Kevin Rose says forget Web 2.0 or 3.0 -- make your startup Web 2.5
- New MySpace Drag'n'Drop Interface
- Twitter a terrorist tool?
- Gilbane Conference on Social Media Meets CMS
- Forrester Report says Social Web Went Mainstream in '08
Kevin Rose says forget Web 2.0 or 3.0 -- make your startup Web 2.5
When Digg supremo Kevin Rose isn't playing the beer-swilling buffoon on DiggNation, he's capable of putting in a shift as an extremely thoughtful business-evangelist type.
Never more so than in a recent Seesmic blog post , in which he takes a Paul Graham post on "Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy" and runs with it, concluding that once the boulder really got rolling, nearly all web 2.0 start-ups simply got lost in the noise and couldn't gain any traction.
Digg, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and most of the services which we associate with the Web 2.0 tag all launched before that tag even made any sense. If you could apply the label "Web 2.0" to a new web startup, chances are it sank without trace (some obvious exceptions like Twitter aside).
Rose also talks about the early days of Digg (it's only 4 years old??), recounting that it was a 'scappy startup', that he kept the day-job and pumped in a couple of thousand dollars here and a couple thousand there, and that he only went after Angel funding when he ran out of money. While doing things on the cheap may be anathema to the current brood of Web entrepeneurs, Rose reckons it's by no means a bad thing for your startup if you can't get money for your 'back-of-the-envelope' idea, and if you have to hold onto the day-job for a while.
Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the weeks' SM news in scan-friendly format.
This Week:
- Google Chrome, (because yes, it IS a social media story).
- Twitter hits 99.x% Uptime
- The Scandalous Shock of Disgraceful Digg's Bribery Scandal
- Socialmedian does Newsstreaming as Lifestreaming
- Shozu Social App hit iPhone
- Socialcast 3.0: Social Networking in the Enterprise
Google Chrome
Google launched a new browser this week. You may have heard something about it. It's great, far as we can tell (here's our take on Chrome), and is tailor-made for running rich web applications, because it runs RIAs in seperate tabs in their own environment, or something. Which FireFox and IE do not. Which is why FF 3 crashes like a mutha and why IE usually runs like a 3-legged dog.
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