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We live in an attention economy. Steve Gillmor impressed this upon me 5 years ago. Since then, the demands on our attention have intensified ten-fold -- or maybe more. So the reason these companies aren't getting their due is that they can't get through the noise. Those of us who pride ourselves in paying attention are burned out on trying/testing/using the products of startups, uploading all that data, our profile photo, etc. We are simply out of time if it requires our attention.
Oh, and did I forget to say our jobs have gotten more time-consuming, too?
OMG! I was an blogger on Health Central:-)
Fortunately, we are going with GOAP to the Middle East in November, and I am a woman and an entrepreneurship coach. If you know anyone who needs help, send them my way.
@PhilipNowak @ryanevans @rodrakic @timjahn Same thing in Arizona. If you don't have a business model from the get-go, you can forget it, and I ask the same questions you guys do. I always think SV is nuts. And discussing business models is never trivial: ask Steve Blenk.
That is the most gorgeous child! Count me as the 6th person who asked to see him.
SpaceX will go public, I am sure. It just needs too much money.
No one IS outdoing Elon. There's only so much software and social media can do.
Hey Erin, Not to quibble, but I used to work for Macmillan, and that's how it is spelled. You have spelled it two difference ways with the wrong capitalisation. How do you expect us bloggers to be taken seriously?
ZEDO, the ad tech company I work with, is going to "go custom" with its publisher partners. It is testing 9 new mobile high impact ad formats, and the tests are proving the ad units to be 99% in view. So the viewable impressions problem is solved by ZEDO (and comScore). Next comes the problem of devices, and ZEDO is betting most mobile monetization will come on the tablet, not the phone. Why? Screen size, time to consume, etc. Except for transactional geo-located content (a special on Foursquare) , a phone user doesn't want to be disturbed. Tablet users, OTOH, will play games in an ad and get involved.
Too simplistic, Francisco. I lead a rich online life on just about every platform, I check in on Foursquare, tweet things I read, and generally overshare. And yes, I check devices in the bathroom, and when with geeks, I am not averse to reading email while they tweet. BUT I also know all my neighbors, and walk my dogs in a neighborhood park with friends every morning. I then keep up with the days of my friends on Facebook, and they keep up with mine. They tease me about how much more connected I am than they are.
But for me, connectedness has given me community,. I now have friends in London, San Francisco, and New York, while basically living in Phoenix. I share some interests with online friends, and some with people IRL. I mentor IRL. I work IRL. I just see the internet as having expanded my world exponentially and taught me a great deal.
I had no idea, Jay! How awful it must have been. But OTOH, you lived, and learned. You will now become the nutrition freak that I am. My dad died at 57, and it taught me a huge lesson early in life.
I'm not sure I agree with your conclusions. The first one is right on. But I think Google+ is doing fine for what it is: a way of connecting people to information. It isn't a social network. It's a social layer, or a recommendation engine. And I think when you have an A-List of investors as Pinterest does, you have access to lots of shared knowledge. But most important, and most easily missed: there are social networks that exist without the Silicon Valley players. Tagged is one of them. Orkut is another. And yes, these networks have their uses. But I don't really think Pinterest is for marketers. I think it's for visually oriented people. And people who like to save things. It's a visual Delicious. So the people who loved bookmarking and social bookmarketing will gravitate toward Pinterest, along with the scrapbookers.
Thanks:-) Might be willing to give it a try
JamesGray And that's my question as well