Tag Archive for 'web2.0'

passion + inspiration = innvovation 2.0

Published on February 24, 2009 in presentations by Eric Marden. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

One part entrepreneurial rally cry, two parts iterative dissection of internet trends, and one part philosophical meta-rant; this talk adds up to be one hell of a thought provoker.

Building on the basic theme of the version 1 of this talk, the “incomplete history of the internet” portion has been completely reworked to better reflect current trends, and comes to a completely different set of conclusions.

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Andrew Keen, Full of Fail

Published on July 1, 2008 in editorial by Eric Marden. 6 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Inspired by Lawrence Salberg’s review of Andrew Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, I downloaded the book with this month’s credit on my Audible account. I got an hour into the audio book today, and so far it’s like listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about the “Liberal Agenda”. Which is to say, his diatribes are made up of lots of false assumptions, punctuated with moments of accuracy, smeared in generalizations and couched in a rhetorical argument that only make sense if you believe the aforementioned assumptions.

With that out of the way, I agree with some of the points Andrew Keen makes, just not the conclusions he makes about them. Here are a handful of my initial impressions, stated conversationally as a response to his ideas: Continue reading ‘Andrew Keen, Full of Fail’

I’m in UR internetz, stealin all UR cultures

Published on June 26, 2008 in etcetera by Eric Marden. 9 Comments Tags: , , , , .

In Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur… “makes the case that the internet, particularly Web 2.0 with all of it’s socialization and democratization, is making us all idiots.” Read a passionate review of it here. Audible has it and I will surely be spending this month’s credit on it.

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What are we building?

Published on May 26, 2008 in articles by Eric Marden. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Tim O’Reilly, in referring to the “Web 2.0″ Internet operating system:

The key question is what kind of platform we’re collectively building. There is strong evidence that the platform that’s emerging is more like Linux than it is like Windows. That is, no one player is going to own all the pieces.

More on Why search competition isn’t the point.

How many sites are you supporting?

Published on October 18, 2007 in articles by Eric Marden. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

And by supporting I mean, how many non-business sites have you upgraded to a paying account with?

I am proud to support:

How many of you own a site that has a premium account that you charge money for? Do you find that you are more apt to support another site that you find useful because of this? What is your criteria for making the leap to a paid account?

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