Put the broom down, Cap'n! Flickr turned out to be useful. It's a good photo-hosting service with a decent UI and some helpful organizational tools. When it was cloaked in that "Using Flickr will make your breath smell fresher!" verneer of vaguely-nebulous Web2.0 platitudes, the cheese factor was high. I'm not sure why these services need to plump themselves up so much. Once they got into the mode of saying "hey, this isn't going to change the future or end world hunger or anything, but it will help you organize your photos," they got the hint.
The hoopla surrounding Twitter is trumping up what's pretty much a stupid simple idea and implying that this is the future of the everything. I've been watching the first season of SNL and one of the recurring Weekend Update jokes has Chevy Chase in front of an inexplicably weird picture, such as a car half-sunk in a pool of mud or concrete, and Chevy starts in with a friendly-condescending "Well, college fads come and go, don't they?" (in the case of the car, it was trying to see how much oatmeal you could fit in a VW bug.)
Well, Web fads come and go, don't they?
At the time, they're a Real Big Deal, but let's keep it realistic here. Unless there's a good use for 'em, let them be used and enjoyed by those who like them and let 'em fade out into obscurity or whatnot (later, Orkut. Enjoy your new Brazilian friends.) Perhaps I'm just sick of the constant hyping up of every new silly web idea, especially after we were so recently burnt by the last time we hyped up every silly new web idea.
Does no one learn from the mistakes of their immediate predecessor anymore?
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Re: no one knows my .plan
Date: 2007-04-04 02:53 pm (UTC)The hoopla surrounding Twitter is trumping up what's pretty much a stupid simple idea and implying that this is the future of the everything. I've been watching the first season of SNL and one of the recurring Weekend Update jokes has Chevy Chase in front of an inexplicably weird picture, such as a car half-sunk in a pool of mud or concrete, and Chevy starts in with a friendly-condescending "Well, college fads come and go, don't they?" (in the case of the car, it was trying to see how much oatmeal you could fit in a VW bug.)
Well, Web fads come and go, don't they?
At the time, they're a Real Big Deal, but let's keep it realistic here. Unless there's a good use for 'em, let them be used and enjoyed by those who like them and let 'em fade out into obscurity or whatnot (later, Orkut. Enjoy your new Brazilian friends.) Perhaps I'm just sick of the constant hyping up of every new silly web idea, especially after we were so recently burnt by the last time we hyped up every silly new web idea.
Does no one learn from the mistakes of their immediate predecessor anymore?