Inventor of the hashtag. #1 Product Hunter. Techmeme Ride Home podcaster. Ever-curious product designer and technologist. Previously: Google, Uber, Republic, YC W'18.
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6 thoughts on “The Colors of Web2.0 Party”
Where did the dropshadow hack go?
I haven’t heard of half of those sites/companies.
Google throws my way:
Flock: No clue (Wired says it’s a Firefox-based browser); I can tell it’s target demographics real easy tho.
Wink: Google is of no use (did you mean winks club? msn winks? the perfect night’s sleep in a luxurious bedroom?)
Odeo: everyone loves podcasts! no obvious way of making money! we’re so late to the game it hurts!
SocialText: Wikipedia, but for companies, jazzier interface. Benefit to the casual user is unknown.
The amount of overhype behind pairing 4 relatively obscure web-services next to four heavy trendy tech hitters makes my head spin.
Factory Joe 
Where did the dropshadow hack go?
I haven’t heard of half of those sites/companies.
Google throws my way:
Flock: No clue (Wired says it’s a Firefox-based browser); I can tell it’s target demographics real easy tho.
Wink: Google is of no use (did you mean winks club? msn winks? the perfect night’s sleep in a luxurious bedroom?)
Odeo: everyone loves podcasts! no obvious way of making money! we’re so late to the game it hurts!
SocialText: Wikipedia, but for companies, jazzier interface. Benefit to the casual user is unknown.
The amount of overhype behind pairing 4 relatively obscure web-services next to four heavy trendy tech hitters makes my head spin.
wheres the yellow digg.com?
Made me smile – thank you!