This week has an article about user-drive media, Web 2.0 and sites like Gather, MySpace, Flickr, etc. Unfortunately, such a timely article, but focused almost exclusively on MySpace - which, in my opinion, is for 22 caliber minds in a 357 world :-)
Maybe next time an article is written, Gather will be big enough, with enough members creating great, interesting content, and a PR firm getting the word out - that it will be written about as well.
Time Magazine Article here:
New Wisdom of the Web
Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it's all about ... you.
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..."Flickr was a good business, too, as many users chose to pay the $25-a-year fee for unlimited photo storage and relief from advertising on the site. But that's not why Yahoo bought it for an estimated $35 million. "With less than 10 people on the payroll, they had millions of users generating content, millions of users organizing that content for them, tens of thousands of users distributing that across the Internet, and thousands of people not on the payroll actually building the thing," says Yahoo exec Bradley Horowitz."
Gather.com is similar, if not as large. (Yet!). So we have to be a little patient when with a limited staff they say things will change.
Patience has it's limits but we haven't yet reach that I hope.
L.
Myspace.com's huge. Gather, miniscule.
You're the one who lives in Amerika: Bigger is better. Size Matters. Godzilla squashes Bambi. Bolton berates Burundi.
Time, timely. Never timeless.
Relevance, my friend, crunch the numbers and weep.
We gatherers are highbrow slackers nibbling gorgonzola and sipping savignon blanc amongst the troglodyte mosh pit dwellers in the WWF Wazzup Web Cafe.
And we like it that way. (Tintinnabulation of the eternal bells.)
THAT is a great line..
L.
-Resident liberal-elite, over-educated, gogonzola eating, Shirraz sipping, tree-hugging, pot-smoking, bourgeois intellectual chowda head.