Comments on: 3bubbles is cool — but so what? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/12/3bubbles-is-cool-but-so-what/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:38:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: larry borsato: February 2006 Archives http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/12/3bubbles-is-cool-but-so-what/#comment-83009 larry borsato: February 2006 Archives Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:20:22 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/12/3bubbles-is-cool-but-so-what/#comment-83009 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] puts into words exactly what I've been thinking about the fleeting nature of many so called Web 2.0 applications. The geek in me wants to sign up and try every one of these cool toys, but they seldom become part of my day to day array of useful tools. Jeff Sandquist calls it the seven day rule: I love to try out new software all the time, in fact its sort of an obsession. I'm always on the prowl for cool new applications. After seven days of use though if I'm not totally blowon away or if its not improving my PC life, its straight to add/remove programs I go. (Please, have a good un-installer).These applications rarely gain traction with me because they are just that - cool toys - but they don't solve a problem for me. One pleasant exception is a tool called Filangy that caches every page I view in Firefox and allows me to search them later from any machine. It has allowed me to take all of my history with me as I go from machine to machine anywhere in the world. Unfortunately my Filangy use is suffering because of issues with Firefox on Mac OS X that have forced me to use Safari more, and Filangy doesn't work with Safari.3bubbles is a perfect example. Adding chat to a web page, even an ajaxy chat, isn't new. And if I don't have chat on my web page already then I probably don't perceive it as a problem I need to solve. Mathew Ingram isn't that impressed either.The proliferation of search engines is similar. Until I find that Google isn't finding what I want to find, then none of these other search engines is going to stick with me.Of course all of these services will probably be seeking valuations based on how many users they have, but it seems that churn may be a factor here just as it is in the telecom business. Maybe we should be asking how many current active users they have on an ongoing basis.Mark compares this to an endless buffet, but I prefer to think of it as a toy store. There are lots of toys to choose from, and people will buy pretty much any toy once, but there are only a few Cabbage Patch Doll, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Furby, or Harry Potter kind of successes. The toys that people don't but just end up in the clearance bins. And the web 2.0 applications that people don't continue to use just fade into last week.Technorati: web 2.0Powered by Bleezer [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] puts into words exactly what I’ve been thinking about the fleeting nature of many so called Web 2.0 applications. The geek in me wants to sign up and try every one of these cool toys, but they seldom become part of my day to day array of useful tools. Jeff Sandquist calls it the seven day rule: I love to try out new software all the time, in fact its sort of an obsession. I’m always on the prowl for cool new applications. After seven days of use though if I’m not totally blowon away or if its not improving my PC life, its straight to add/remove programs I go. (Please, have a good un-installer).These applications rarely gain traction with me because they are just that - cool toys - but they don’t solve a problem for me. One pleasant exception is a tool called Filangy that caches every page I view in Firefox and allows me to search them later from any machine. It has allowed me to take all of my history with me as I go from machine to machine anywhere in the world. Unfortunately my Filangy use is suffering because of issues with Firefox on Mac OS X that have forced me to use Safari more, and Filangy doesn’t work with Safari.3bubbles is a perfect example. Adding chat to a web page, even an ajaxy chat, isn’t new. And if I don’t have chat on my web page already then I probably don’t perceive it as a problem I need to solve. Mathew Ingram isn’t that impressed either.The proliferation of search engines is similar. Until I find that Google isn’t finding what I want to find, then none of these other search engines is going to stick with me.Of course all of these services will probably be seeking valuations based on how many users they have, but it seems that churn may be a factor here just as it is in the telecom business. Maybe we should be asking how many current active users they have on an ongoing basis.Mark compares this to an endless buffet, but I prefer to think of it as a toy store. There are lots of toys to choose from, and people will buy pretty much any toy once, but there are only a few Cabbage Patch Doll, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Furby, or Harry Potter kind of successes. The toys that people don’t but just end up in the clearance bins. And the web 2.0 applications that people don’t continue to use just fade into last week.Technorati: web 2.0Powered by Bleezer [...]

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