Are we going to party like it’s 1999?

A few weeks ago I posted a question on LinkedIn asking how the current Web 2.0 “bubble” is different than the first one. Many respondents feel the lessons learned 7ish years ago won’t be repeated and took issue with me calling our current market activity a “bubble.”

I won’t argue….I’ll simply instruct them to go* here and see if they still disagree!

* ok, maybe not “go” but you know what I mean

Ok, let’s think about this some more…

Maybe I shouldn’t be so harsh with my friend. I mean, with web 2.0-social networking-ubiquitous ad placement monetization-etc., and our concurrent poverty of attention and time, isn’t every relationship and interaction becoming something to be “leveraged” and capitalized – in the truest sense of the word? If you click on my page or download my friend’s song, me and my friend and many other middle-people can make money…and it’s so scalable!

Sort of makes the Mary Kay’s of yesteryear look tame (pink cars and all).