Comments on: The future of Web 2.0 is here, and it’s sound asleep http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/19/the-future-of-web-20-is-here-and-its-sound-asleep/ blogging is not a spectator sport Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rich Collins http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/19/the-future-of-web-20-is-here-and-its-sound-asleep/comment-page-1/#comment-127013 Rich Collins Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:49:33 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/19/the-future-of-web-20-is-here-and-its-sound-asleep/#comment-127013 The bubble was due to insane investment and IPOs for companies with products that no one used. * Justin.tv has likely taken minute investment compared with with bubble times. * It doesn't matter if you think justin.tv is stupid as long as people use the site. In addition, I don't even understand why people think there is a bubble. Have a look at VC investment over the last 10 years: http://tinyurl.com/yrv7x2 The apparent bubble is due to the effusion of new sites stemming from a massive increase in programmer productivity and cheap hardware. The bubble was due to insane investment and IPOs for companies with products that no one used.

* Justin.tv has likely taken minute investment compared with with bubble times.
* It doesn’t matter if you think justin.tv is stupid as long as people use the site.

In addition, I don’t even understand why people think there is a bubble. Have a look at VC investment over the last 10 years:

http://tinyurl.com/yrv7×2

The apparent bubble is due to the effusion of new sites stemming from a massive increase in programmer productivity and cheap hardware.

]]> By: The Truman Show meets Web 2.0: Former Kiko coworkers launch Justin.tv http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/19/the-future-of-web-20-is-here-and-its-sound-asleep/comment-page-1/#comment-123769 The Truman Show meets Web 2.0: Former Kiko coworkers launch Justin.tv Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:57:11 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/03/19/the-future-of-web-20-is-here-and-its-sound-asleep/#comment-123769 [...] Could Justin.tv be the fourth horseman of the Web 2.0 Apocalypse as some have predicted? (Was Kiko the first?) [...] [...] Could Justin.tv be the fourth horseman of the Web 2.0 Apocalypse as some have predicted? (Was Kiko the first?) [...]

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