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Lyons: Dotcom Bubble, the Sequel - Newsweek
Remember that crazy dotcom bubble in the late 1990s and the huge bust that followed? It looks like we’re about to sit through the same movie all over again. That’s what Fred Wilson, a well-known venture capitalist, has been saying lately. Wilson, who runs Union Square Ventures, a New York–based VC firm, says he sees “storm clouds” on the horizon, and he worries that we might be headed toward another disaster.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
March 16, 2012 One thing I'm going to miss about the print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, now that it's been consigned to the dumpster of history, is the spines - all 45 of them, ranked across the shelf like stoic beefeaters. They're handsome things, somehow managing to be imposing and inviting at the same time. But the best part is that each one is branded with a pair of index words, there to tell you where the volume begins and where it ends. You thus get a bunch of almost-random two-word phrases to conjure with. Some don't rise above their functionality: India Ireland , for instance, or Accounting Architecture .
And so at last, after passing through Email and Instant Messaging and Texting, we arrive in the land of Twitter. The birds are singing in the trees – they look like that robin at the end of Blue Velvet – and the air itself is so clean you can see yourself in it. Twitter is the telegraph system of Web 2.0.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Twitter dot dash
Sean Parker: The Next Social Movement Is All About Live And Chatroulette Is There [Video]
MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More
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