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Three cheers to you, juice. I'm still waiting for this kind of spirit to seep back into the web. When we were first online, everything was weird, awesome, and
by digitailor 16y ago
Three cheers to you, juice.
I'm still waiting for this kind of spirit to seep back into the web. When we were first online, everything was weird, awesome, and seemingly limitless. Now we're in a state of incredibly boring commodification.
The stale and sterile nature of the FB Newsfeed drives this point home to me. All the unique and dynamic people I know have been reduced to an unformatted little post, with a link if you're lucky. This model of web communication has turned us all into just another bland-looking content generator, and automatically stripped us of identity.
My advice to startups: everyone is bored with the web right now. There is nothing sexy or controversial occurring with a decent business model behind it (like Dischord Records). Please inject some id into your business plan, and give the people what they really want: sexy fun.
Freefreebeer is the right idea...
- c1sc0 16y agoI'm glad you like the spirit. I didn't think about it in the terms you outlined. But you're right: the internet used to be awesom. We gotta take it back from the SEO farmers & social media whores. Put some soul back into it & yes, if you're doing a startup: bring some cojones to your business model.