Comments on: 2008: Year of the Deadpool http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:19:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Foxinni - Wordpress Designer http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39189 Foxinni - Wordpress Designer Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:00:35 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39189 Indeed. Deadpools makes us realize that the web is a living thing. I feel the web has matured considerably since I took interest in it and now you see sites that are becoming house hold name. Facebook, Myspace, Wikipedia and many more. They have indeed made it harder for startups to make then selves noticed. Stealing thunder in some cases and in other just plain squashing them. There might come a point where all the web Viable ideas are taken... but then there might be a whole new wave of thinking.. what I believe will be in RIA and that... will blow us all away. Indeed. Deadpools makes us realize that the web is a living thing. I feel the web has matured considerably since I took interest in it and now you see sites that are becoming house hold name. Facebook, Myspace, Wikipedia and many more. They have indeed made it harder for startups to make then selves noticed. Stealing thunder in some cases and in other just plain squashing them. There might come a point where all the web Viable ideas are taken… but then there might be a whole new wave of thinking.. what I believe will be in RIA and that… will blow us all away.

]]> By: Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39182 Mark Evans Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:23:01 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39182 E Guy: What can I say? :) Then again, what's the Deadpool but a place for companies that failed to become economically viable? E Guy: What can I say? :) Then again, what’s the Deadpool but a place for companies that failed to become economically viable?

]]> By: E Guy http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39174 E Guy Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:47:33 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39174 Mark: I applaud your use of spin. What you describe is basic business and economics in a market based system. There really is no news here...just a quick synopsis of economics 101. But hey, all the power to you as you create posts from a traditional economics text book... Mark:

I applaud your use of spin. What you describe is basic business and economics in a market based system. There really is no news here…just a quick synopsis of economics 101.

But hey, all the power to you as you create posts from a traditional economics text book…

]]> By: Gillian http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39137 Gillian Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:30:59 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-39137 It certainly feels like we might be heading for this. Once again, every now and then a new business model seems to emerge (web 2.0 in this case) but it always comes back to the same fundamental ingredient -- customers. If the customers (and revenue) are not there, every other good thing the company builds (brand, users, investors, buzz) will go away in due course. Investors will only stick around long enough to determine if there is traction (revenue) and users will only stick around as long as their is differentiating value (generally funded by revenue). The ugly side of buzz is the negative "press" that will surely appear when the cracks start to appear... Thanks for the thought-provoking post. It certainly feels like we might be heading for this.

Once again, every now and then a new business model seems to emerge (web 2.0 in this case) but it always comes back to the same fundamental ingredient — customers. If the customers (and revenue) are not there, every other good thing the company builds (brand, users, investors, buzz) will go away in due course. Investors will only stick around long enough to determine if there is traction (revenue) and users will only stick around as long as their is differentiating value (generally funded by revenue). The ugly side of buzz is the negative “press” that will surely appear when the cracks start to appear…

Thanks for the thought-provoking post.

]]> By: Joost: Meh » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-38886 Joost: Meh » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:11:36 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-38886 [...] Additional Reading: Paris Lemon has similar content complaints (but more sympathy), NewTeeVee writes about the firing of Joost’s CTO, and Mark Evans suggests 2008 may be the year of the “deadpool”. [...] [...] Additional Reading: Paris Lemon has similar content complaints (but more sympathy), NewTeeVee writes about the firing of Joost’s CTO, and Mark Evans suggests 2008 may be the year of the “deadpool”. [...]

]]> By: Alex Barrera http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-38855 Alex Barrera Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:46:26 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/19/2008-year-of-the-deadpool/#comment-38855 So true Mark. I did some rough estimates and the trend of "deadpooled" companies in 2006 was nothing compared to the one in 2007. This year will be much worse as you say. Well, I suppose it's the market self readjustment. So true Mark. I did some rough estimates and the trend of “deadpooled” companies in 2006 was nothing compared to the one in 2007. This year will be much worse as you say. Well, I suppose it’s the market self readjustment.

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