Web 2.0: Not Impressed
on 06.17.08, 12:45pm in software • share on facebook • comments (1)
[TV Squad] I’m convinced they were parodying the Legion of Doom’s methodology from the Challenge of the Super Friends which ran from 1978 to 1979 on ABC. Their simple goal was stated in the opening credits: the conquest of the Universe, with a subordinate goal of the destruction of the Super Friends. They failed every time, and I think that’s partially due to poor planning.
As I read through today’s headlines on Techmeme and Technorati, peruse my social networks and tweet my life away, I can’t help this overwhelming feeling that all of these Web 2.0 companies have business plans that are no more credible than the Legion of Doom’s plan to ‘travel back in time to prevent the most powerful Super Friends from existing’.
Where have all the software companies gone? Does anyone make products any more?
Perhaps Tyler Durden is right: “Only after disaster can we be resurrected“.
Franci Penov (June 17, 2008 @ 1:06 pm)
Unfortunately, people were conditioned that they should expect free software and free web services (alas, nothing is free and the cost is usually the users privacy).
Thus, the only viable business plan is to build a free service, amass as many users as quickly as possible and then sell out to the big guys.