My first post on wordpress!
It comes to my attention that I should start blogging my daily antics to digest the information which I collect and spit it back out to you. I am most interested in web startups, everything ’social’, that cursed ‘web 2.0′ hype phrase, online collaboration and other general technology rants. Speaking of rants, let us begin with the first:
What’s bothering me recently as I spend hours digging around online about the latest developments of the web world is the problem of the so called curve. You read your daily RSS, you open links from friends, you hear about developments through IM, email, forums, newsgroups - you get the idea. The question arises as to what really are we all chasing? Why is there this inherent need to try and get a sense of where things are going? I suspect we do it for mainly curiosity, for the fun of learning, and to perhaps come up with the next best startup.
While I can see potential benefits of being ahead of the curve, the greatest of which being the financial gains acquired for exploiting newly emerged potential, I fail to see how we can gauge how far up or down the curve we are. There is such a wealth of information out there on a daily basis it seems as if we only have time to get a snapshot of big news and largely ignore the rest. How can we ever really know ahead of time of developments such as the launch of Whrrl when their launch date is the time when everyone hears about it? Why for example if I visit the traffic rankings for the domain on Alexa, has it been active since mid August? Surely this is evidence that people get wind of information before the masses. What are we missing?
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