• Web 2.0:

    For every 1.6 billion dollar buy out, there are 1.6 million start-ups in garages digging their own websites.

  • Startups 1:

    If your target market is the readers of digg, reddit, and delicious then you’re trying to sell shelves to a carpenter. If he really wanted them, he would have built them himself, years ago.

  • Startups 2:

    If you build it, they might come. If you have a nice website they might stay. If you offer a free service, they might use it. If you’ve gotten this far without thinking about where the cash comes from , you’re in trouble.

    These are among the great words of wisdom I found in a great post from Des Traynor. To this I can only add,

    I refuse to let anyone upgrade me to Web 3.0 this year at Web 2.0. I’m technically running Web 2.0 on Internet 1.0 since Internet 2.0 has been delayed. Attempting to convince me to upgrade to Web 3.0 would be like running Windows Vista on a PDP/11 which everyone knows is not buzzword compliant.

    I’m going to be in San Francisco next week for Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference which should be interesting. This will be my first attempt at blogging during a conference. I tend to be very busy meeting people at conferences - so I’ll have to see how productive my posting will be.

    My old team from Radialpoint are sponsoring the conference and will have a team attending. My friends Joi and Roger are speaking and a bunch of friends are going to be in town. It should be a fun show.

    I’d be interested to hear which other Canadians are going to be heading down for the conference. Given I’ve only increased my readership to an estimated 0.00000016 of the Canadian population (well, I’m being generous to myself - I doubt everyone who has visited the site is Canadian) I may just have to run into them down there.

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    On Tue 31 Oct 2006.