Much love (and a free fake iPhone) to dear reader Richard who sent us this link to the article which explains why the Skype deal made so much sense. Money quote: "Keep in mind that one of the biggest changes now happening in business is the empowerment of the individual. It's all about power being dispersed by the intrinsic equalizing force of the Net. You might say that eBay seems intent on creating the first genuine conglomerate of what I have called the Contribution Economy."
Riiiiiight. The contribution economy. That's a powerful meme for leveraging tropes and achieving synergies across disparate disintermediated communities that are pixelating and being reinvented as the distributive disruptive power of the always-on 24-7 Net creates a new self-organizing organism that is in effect evolving into a protean electronic self in which connections are switched on and off with increasing rapidity, friction is removed from the system, the world is flattened, and change is the only constant. Ergo, Skype is worth a zillion billion dollars. Pretty simple stuff, really.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
That prescient Fortune article on Ebay-Skype
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Ummm... just between you and me that last one sounded like the rantings of a Fortune writer trying to be funny. Try to stay in character.
FSJ,
"Keep in mind that one of the biggest changes now happening in business is the empowerment of the individual. It's all about power being dispersed by the intrinsic equalizing force of the Net."
Nice description of mySpaceBook. The only difference with skype is that there's a bit better opportunity for ad income. The tards should have their lateral thinking caps on. Skype rhymes with hype, ergo, caveat emptor.
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(think horizontally)
Hilarious - I laughed out loud. To think there were doubters who thought that FSJ might have lost his edge when outed, if anything he's going from strength to strength.
And there was me thinking this was just about cheaper long-distance calling. Glad Fortune was there to set me straight. And even gladder that all those sociologists graduating from US universities have finally found gainful employment somewhere in Fortune's basement writing this kind of stuff. Seriously. Otherwise they'd be day dreaming about the great egalitarian society yet to come instead of concentrating on making my latte in Starbucks, and getting it all messed up.
"what I have called the Contribution Economy..."
Anyone who references himself in an article is a narcissitic yet paradoxically deeply insecure gasbag, i.e. most college professors.
If anyone thinks that management consultants from IBM or McKinsey don't talk as FSJ parodies in his last paragraph, please adjust your set, they really really do. I've heard run-on sentences that include the words "disintermediating" and "swizzling the value proposition" and far worse besides. And this was in 1999!
Heh. That reminds me of the following Catholic joke:
And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?" His disciples replied, "You are the eschatalogical manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed." And Jesus replied, "What?"
FSJ, that was beautifully put, and I intend on memorizing it before my next job interview. No wonder you get all the babes, man - that's breathtakingly impressive talk!
And Skype was only Bubble 1.5.
Where is the love?
You forgot to mention Web Too.
To quote Taggart (Slim Pickens) in , "...you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore."
If it's the contribution economy why does everything have to be free, and nobody seems prepared to contribute anything economic?
"Anyone who references himself in an article is a narcissitic yet paradoxically deeply insecure gasbag, i.e. most college professors."
There’s only a paradox if you're speaking of the naricssus of mythology. No paradox is present in the psychological sense of narcissism you've used. In fact, it's just the opposite. A college professor could have told you that, I believe.
Apparently Merlin Mann is now moonlighting as FSJ...
did anyone end up on a blazing saddles page? did sasnak forget the </a> closing tag?
I guess it's my turn to do public service. Here's the errant closing tag< /a>.
But the auto-check doesn't like it, cos there's no opening tag. So where was the autocheck when the clsoing tag was forgaotten?
whew, that was a relief.
Autocheck: Fooled ya with the closing tag, didn't I.
Dang. It's still not closing off sasnak's mess. Let's try this again: < /a>
FSJ
get your interns to close the friggin sasnak anchor that he forgot to close and the syntax checker didn't catch. Unless you actually want people to head off to the imdb page on blazing saddles.
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