Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile. By Hamish McKenzie On April 27, 2012 When they look back at this era, Internet historians will mark Facebook’s Instagram acquisition as the symbolic moment when the Great Shift was confirmed.
Significantly, it also came soon after Steve Jobs’ death. The device that Jobs created had, within the space of five years, allowed a 551-day-old company with 14 employees to become worth $1 billion. On April 9, 2012, Web 2.0 lost its mantle as the most important Internet paradigm. We are now starting the Age of Mobile.
The momentum has been shifting for a while, but now the trend is emphatic. This is a new phenomenon. They know this much themselves, and they’re worried. We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven. It’s clear: The centre of gravity is shifting. Teare told me: “Any company that isn’t primarily delivering its service via mobile five years from now will probably be irrelevant.” Social Perception. The Best Page In The Universe.
I am better than your kids. I am better than your kids.
If you work in an office with lots of people, chances are that you work with a person who hangs pictures up that their kids have drawn. The pictures are always of some stupid flower or a tree with wheels. These pictures suck; I could draw pictures much better. In fact, I can spell, do math and run faster than your kids. So being that my skills are obviously superior to those of children, I've taken the liberty to judge art work done by other kids on the internet. I win. More crappy children's art work: Crappy art #1Crappy art #2More updates! I Am Better Than Your Kids. 11 Sexy Girls with Star Wars tattoos you don't have the rights to publish. There's a type of spam most people have never heard of, because it's only sent to people who run successful websites.
I call it "promo-spam. " It's spam sent from dipshits with made-up job titles like "Social Media Gurus. " They're hired by companies trying desperately to dip their ladle into the daily click-stream of bored morons with short attention spans by creating "viral" list articles. They've discovered a simple formula: 1. The reason these shitty list articles have flooded the Internet is because they're cheap, easy to generate, quick to read and require no creative work; a pig with a stick in its mouth could tap one out in morse.
It works. The reason? Of entertainment for a generation brought up on Twitter, because every list comes with an unspoken guarantee to the reader that they won't have to invest too much time or mental energy in reading anything that might challenge them. Sound stupid? Last January, I started receiving spam from a site called "Ranker. " How to kill yourself like a man. I hope SOPA passes.
Update (01-20-12): MPAA caught lying.Update (01-23-12): Boycott poll added.Update (01-30-12): Boycotts matter: the companies respond...
Because that's exactly what we need to wake up from this slumbering, do-nothing, "occupy everything," stagnant, non-action slump we Americans are in. "Protest schemes that don't cost the participants any inconvenience, hardship or money remain the most popular, despite their ineffectiveness. " -Snopes We're a country where people think that... Boycotting gas for a day makes a difference. SOPA is the "Stop Online Piracy Act. " There have been many bills attempted (and some passed) like SOPA before it. Raising awareness is a great way of feeling good about yourself without actually doing anything. How much do you care about SOPA? Would you be willing to: Take time off work to go down to Washington DC? Because until or unless you do, all the loud clamoring isn't going to change shit.
As of this writing, enough of you whined and got your way.