http://brontemedia.com/2006/08/29/no-bubble-20/ There are those who experiment and those who follow the formula Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:14:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://brontemedia.com/2006/08/29/no-bubble-20/#comment-5237 Rob Leathern Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:58:11 +0000 http://brontemedia.com/2006/08/29/no-bubble-20/#comment-5237 Niki - isn't part of what you are not accounting for the time and attention that is being spent on some of these ideas by their creators without any actual business model for most of them? I think your point about a resume is fine, but then I think we're definitely talking about something very different overall - we're not talking about companies or enterprises, but more about 'programming hobby' projects or little pet projects or resume-builders. That is part of why some of this stuff about Web 2.0 grates on me with its talk of "lightweight business models" because many of these things are not sustainable enterprises, they're experiments. I think the original sense of the Web 2.0 description was probably around that 'rapid prototyping' kind of idea but as these ideas sometimes do, it was overgeneralized and many more attributes were added in there that many of these projects can't and won't have. Niki - isn’t part of what you are not accounting for the time and attention that is being spent on some of these ideas by their creators without any actual business model for most of them? I think your point about a resume is fine, but then I think we’re definitely talking about something very different overall - we’re not talking about companies or enterprises, but more about ‘programming hobby’ projects or little pet projects or resume-builders. That is part of why some of this stuff about Web 2.0 grates on me with its talk of “lightweight business models” because many of these things are not sustainable enterprises, they’re experiments. I think the original sense of the Web 2.0 description was probably around that ‘rapid prototyping’ kind of idea but as these ideas sometimes do, it was overgeneralized and many more attributes were added in there that many of these projects can’t and won’t have.

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