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Has He Been Saving All This Up?
I am in awe over the quality of Marc Andreessen's blogging. How come he waited so long to do this? Has he been saving these posts up for years and is now laying them on us day after day?
In less than two weeks, he's written a classic post on web 2.0:
what we have seen over the last several years is the Web itself coming into its own.
After an initial phase of the Web as a medium, in which lots of people attempted to make the Web look like a newspaper, or a magazine, or a TV channel, we as an industry have recently been collectively developing a much clearer idea of what the Web is really like as a medium in and of itself.
A three part essay on venture capital which I've already linked to extensively on this blog.
And a killer post on Facebook, platforms, and I believe, the future of social networking.
Be careful Marc, you are setting a very high bar which is going to be really hard to maintain.
But I hope you can keep it up because you are giving yourself, your thoughts, and your ideas to the web at large and I am loving every minute of it.
Comments (6) | Posted June 13, 2007 in Venture Capital and Technology
Comments
Funny!
I am sure it is a case of the 'infinite number of monkeys theorem', i.e. that an infinite number of monkeys typing at random will eventually produce the collected works of Shakespeare, but I made the same point about Web 2.0 using almost the same words in a blog post in October 2005.
http://galaxy.blogs.com/venture_capital_thoughts_/2005/10/web_20.html
Posted by: Simon Olson | Jun 13, 2007 8:47:05 AM
Marc is really smart. He writes so much awesome stuff in a short timespan that his readers are actually forced to implement his post on productivity in order to keep up with reading his blog....and his "web 2.0 doesn't exist" post creates a firestorm of what we (the unwashed) would call web 2.0 activity around it.
It's almost Shakespearian in its irony.
Posted by: Andy Swan | Jun 13, 2007 9:35:42 AM
Disagreements about what the web should be called are understandable, but he's right on the money in saying that just now the web is finiding its own true voice.
I said the same thing in this post about Governmental information and Web 2.0.
Posted by: Scott Yates | Jun 13, 2007 1:07:04 PM
Fred,
I wonder how Marc can write so much and so well while doing his day job (running a social networking startup). Of course, I've wondered the same thing about you.
On Marc's Facebook API post, readers should know that the author runs a company that appears to compete with Facebook at some level. Still, it's the most cogent analysis of the Facebook API I've seen yet.
Posted by: Lyndar | Jun 13, 2007 3:50:54 PM
it is amazing. this guy is smart.
i've been sending his blog link out to friends of different stripes and disciplines and getting their raves reviews. some on tech biz issues, most on his time management.
his credibility is huge in VC, tech, start ups, programming, managing huge sums of money (his), apparently history!, and now blogging, and from a joke my wife just told me, ( too long to share now) if he knows french wine i think i'm in love.
i'm glad you posted on it.
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