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Web 2.0: why I don’t blog about it much anymore. . .

May 14, 2008

 

I turn to TechCrunch when there is a dust-up in the blogosphere. For example, the boys at Craiglist just filed a countersuit against eBay and I figured Mike (with his law degree) might have some thoughts on the suit so I immediately clicked over to his blog to see what he thought about the complaint. I was disappointed when I only found a post from Erick detailing the public details of the lawsuit. Truth be told, I would rather read the NYT or WSJ for reporting. I read TechCrunch for commentary and opinion from Mike. Ironically, Wired and Mike are currently arguing about Mike’s conflicts of interest. The fact that Mike is IN the Web 2.0 game and active in the blogo/twitter/sphere is why I care about his commentary and opinion. I didn’t think of turning to Wired for their take on the Craigslist controversy.

That said, I laughed out loud when I read a post by Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch reporter) titled, “FriendFeedLinks: A Memetracker for FriendFeed.” Jason’s post crystalized (for me) the very reason why my commentary and opinion about Web 2.0 simply doesn’t matter anymore. Talk about ‘meta’. Get this, you have a bunch of social tools you use: twitter, blogs, flickr, bebo, delicious, digg, linkedin, upcoming, youtube, pownce, disqus and so on. You want your friends to be able to follow your various feeds in one single place so you sign up for FriendFeed. FriendFeed enables you to share your stuff with others and enables you to consume your friend’s stuff all in one place. Get it? You have all these tools that generate XML feeds of your activity. FriendFeed gobbles the feeds and displays your activity in one place. Very few people I know (in the real world) have time to keep up a blog, much less any of the other social tools listed above. So the market for FriendFeed is relatively small. Now, back to Jason’s post on FriendFeedLinks. This application takes topics discussed on FriendFeed and organizes them based on popularity and is basically a meme tracker. Get it? This is an application for an application for another application and so on. I can’t keep up!

Back in 2005/2006 I was in the game. I was playing with every social tool that popped up, hell we were building every social tool we could think of. Today I am taking those early Web 2.0 concepts and turning them into real solutions for business. I blog regularly, I have a flickr account for my photos, a linkedin account for my social network (I even have myspace, twitter and facebook accounts that I don’t really use). But I don’t have the time to discover, understand and use anything new. I have outsourced that task to Mike and his team. Thank God!

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog, Startups 

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