Comments on: Bubble 2.0 is YouTuberific http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: NEW SECRETS OF COKE DIET MENTOS » Checkout a Diet Coke Video Google (Coke diet mentos mix is worried about YouTube.com,) http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/comment-page-1/#comment-27159 NEW SECRETS OF COKE DIET MENTOS » Checkout a Diet Coke Video Google (Coke diet mentos mix is worried about YouTube.com,) Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:21:15 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/#comment-27159 [...] Bubble 2.0 is YouTuberific … and the hottest Internet-media property going namely YouTube, home of classics such as the Diet Coke and Mentos video seems to be reading from the standard Web 2.0 (or Bubble 2.0) playbook in his recent … [...] [...] Bubble 2.0 is YouTuberific … and the hottest Internet-media property going namely YouTube, home of classics such as the Diet Coke and Mentos video seems to be reading from the standard Web 2.0 (or Bubble 2.0) playbook in his recent … [...]

]]> By: Rob Hyndman http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/comment-page-1/#comment-26331 Rob Hyndman Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:11:03 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/#comment-26331 I'm more partial to "Hurl Chadley" and "Francie Bambisco", but whatever. It's still too early for an IPO. The bankers still need another 6 months to trot out an array of serious-looking analyst suits to tell us, with barely concealed snickering and freshly-inked contracts indemnifying them from shareholder lawsuits once the &^%$ hits the fan, how terrific an opportunity this is. Oh, and we need a good 6 months of the VCs who got in early - enter the DFJs of the world - to tell us how it will be the next big thing. Expect them to now start doing the evening financial news shows, full of fresh-faced enthusiasm and lots of "don't ya want to be rich?" boosterism for whatever it is they're trying to unload on the rest of us. I’m more partial to “Hurl Chadley” and “Francie Bambisco”, but whatever.

It’s still too early for an IPO. The bankers still need another 6 months to trot out an array of serious-looking analyst suits to tell us, with barely concealed snickering and freshly-inked contracts indemnifying them from shareholder lawsuits once the &^%$ hits the fan, how terrific an opportunity this is.

Oh, and we need a good 6 months of the VCs who got in early – enter the DFJs of the world – to tell us how it will be the next big thing. Expect them to now start doing the evening financial news shows, full of fresh-faced enthusiasm and lots of “don’t ya want to be rich?” boosterism for whatever it is they’re trying to unload on the rest of us.

]]> By: robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » “A Tax on the Stupid” http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/comment-page-1/#comment-26329 robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » “A Tax on the Stupid” Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:05:13 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/07/28/bubble-20-is-youtuberific/#comment-26329 [...] I would have used this title on Mathew’s earlier post on YouTube’s bubble-icious IPO aspirations (honestly, a YouTube IPO? Why not just be honest with yourself and go spend it on liquor and gambling?), but he cuts right to the point of the latest scheme to sell music and cel minutes to the gullible and needy - listening to Rolling Stones concerts via your celphone. Indulge me for a moment with a reality-check as Mathew works himself up to the requisite level of gaping disbelief: Yes, I would love to hear the Stones live without having to fly to Paris and pay $350 or whatever their tickets cost now. And yes, I know that the sound doesn’t come from some drunken groupie holding their phone up in the air but straight from the Stones’ soundboard, as BusinessWeek breathlessly informs us. But it’s still $2 for 7 freaking minutes — and it could easily be the 7 minutes when Keef forgets where he put his guitar, or when Charlie has to be taken backstage to refill his oxygen tanks. [...] [...] I would have used this title on Mathew’s earlier post on YouTube’s bubble-icious IPO aspirations (honestly, a YouTube IPO? Why not just be honest with yourself and go spend it on liquor and gambling?), but he cuts right to the point of the latest scheme to sell music and cel minutes to the gullible and needy – listening to Rolling Stones concerts via your celphone. Indulge me for a moment with a reality-check as Mathew works himself up to the requisite level of gaping disbelief: Yes, I would love to hear the Stones live without having to fly to Paris and pay $350 or whatever their tickets cost now. And yes, I know that the sound doesn’t come from some drunken groupie holding their phone up in the air but straight from the Stones’ soundboard, as BusinessWeek breathlessly informs us. But it’s still $2 for 7 freaking minutes — and it could easily be the 7 minutes when Keef forgets where he put his guitar, or when Charlie has to be taken backstage to refill his oxygen tanks. [...]

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