October 23, 2008 at 03:27Not a single web. Startups in an era of change
IBM’s near-synchronized entry into the Enterprise 2.0 and cloud computing markets is not only a sign of the times. This, and it seems to me, is the last signal that marks the end of the second wave of Startup's fever in the Internet region.
I talked about the first signal related to the revolution of social platforms last year. Another signal related to the trend of the business orientation of the social web is mentioned in another article of mine .
And now, the departure of the “social network” into the clouds seems to put the last point in this process. Not only the fever is ending, but the whole culture, which I would call “webdanol startup culture”, is leaving the stage. The peculiar singers of this culture include the well-known TechCrunch, and its less well-known counterpart Profy (a Russian blog with an American face), and, unfortunately, the slowly dying LiveIdea, and IdeaBlog, and many other resources similar to them. This may also include the Habrava collective blog Startups with its almost prophetic announcement “Until the bubble burst for the second time”.
As a manifesto for this culture, I would call a rather interesting article by an equally interesting author, which I read in Kommersant-Money. The article is called "Our daily web."
This article and the general understanding that came almost immediately after its publication that global upheavals in the world market could not be avoided prompted me to take quite a few long notes, the first of which I already posted on the iTech Bridge blog.
Indeed, as a news editor at iTech Bridge, I noticed that the recent crisis events have dramatically changed the tone of articles and speeches devoted to Web 2.0. Previously, out of about ten serious materials in this area, only one predicted the inevitable collapse of the concept of the social Internet, in the last two weeks the proportion of such pessimistic speeches has noticeably exceeded half (see, for example, [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]).
So what is the true statement today: “ our daily web ” or “ not the single web ” (the second note on business-oriented startups is here )? I will be glad if the judges in our correspondence discussion will be habrahlyudi.
I talked about the first signal related to the revolution of social platforms last year. Another signal related to the trend of the business orientation of the social web is mentioned in another article of mine .
And now, the departure of the “social network” into the clouds seems to put the last point in this process. Not only the fever is ending, but the whole culture, which I would call “webdanol startup culture”, is leaving the stage. The peculiar singers of this culture include the well-known TechCrunch, and its less well-known counterpart Profy (a Russian blog with an American face), and, unfortunately, the slowly dying LiveIdea, and IdeaBlog, and many other resources similar to them. This may also include the Habrava collective blog Startups with its almost prophetic announcement “Until the bubble burst for the second time”.
As a manifesto for this culture, I would call a rather interesting article by an equally interesting author, which I read in Kommersant-Money. The article is called "Our daily web."
This article and the general understanding that came almost immediately after its publication that global upheavals in the world market could not be avoided prompted me to take quite a few long notes, the first of which I already posted on the iTech Bridge blog.
Indeed, as a news editor at iTech Bridge, I noticed that the recent crisis events have dramatically changed the tone of articles and speeches devoted to Web 2.0. Previously, out of about ten serious materials in this area, only one predicted the inevitable collapse of the concept of the social Internet, in the last two weeks the proportion of such pessimistic speeches has noticeably exceeded half (see, for example, [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]).
So what is the true statement today: “ our daily web ” or “ not the single web ” (the second note on business-oriented startups is here )? I will be glad if the judges in our correspondence discussion will be habrahlyudi.