Earlier this month Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors, a website that lets anyone post and vote on rumors. The launch was covered by Techrunch and other high profile web 2.0 sites and the subsequent enthusiasm around the web was fairly muted. So here’s my response:
I am throwing down the gauntlet and creating a competitor website to challenge truemors.com with a better-executed version of a rumor submission/voting site.
Is it too early to go retro and build a web 1.0 site yet? You know - just to be cool. Like wearing 60’s clothes in the 60’s was really cool. Wearing them in the 70’s was NOT, then wearing them a few decades later was really cool again.
Last year was the first year I really started going to conferences and the first one I attended was the Future of Web Apps Conference in San Franciso. Ryan Carson was the organizer and they put together a really nice event. It was under $600 (which is cheap for conferences) and included a great lineup of speakers including Mike Arrington (TechCrunch), Kevin Rose (digg), and more.
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So it looks like I was right about this last year - Google wants to fight the battle for the video frontier. Google/YouTube has responded to Viacom’s 1B dollar lawsuit - they’re not interested in a settlement - they want a jury trial.
Original content may be king, but the queen has to be aggregation.
Lists, compilations, and roundups of other resources are found on the home page of Digg, Reddit, and just about any other influential site every single day. Why? Because there’s a lot of value in sorting the wheat from the chaff (so to speak). It helps people save time and organize quality resources.
A quality top 10, top 43, or 100 great [fill in the blank] ’s types of posts and articles receive lots of attention and are probably one of the most bookmarked types of content online.
