Mercury Spotlights Arrington

Matt Marshall has done a wonderful San Jose Mercury News interview with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.  Matt is right to identify Michael as an individual of emerging importance in the rapidly emerging Web 2.0 marketplace.

In my view, Web 2.0 is underrated, not over-rated.  As the global tech community finally heals from the scars of dotcom, the ingredients are being mixed together for yet another explosion that changes the world once again. Michael is at the center of all that and I predict that he is going to become a lot more important than he already has become. A lot more.

I do take issue with just one of his comments, but I'm probably in the minority on it.  Michael claims the current explosion is different from the dotcom era because companies this time are getting acquired by the winners of the last explosion such as Google and Yahoo. Personally, I believe that a new period of dotcom IPOs is not that far into the future. Some of the tiny companies now forming are going to become very important and very central to people's lives.

Even better than being acquired by today's Google, is to become the next Google. Why not? Google is becoming the next Microsoft, just like in ts prime, Microsoft became the next IBM.

Comments

[Michael Arrington]

Hey Shel, Thanks very much for the compliments. I agree with everything you said, even the part where you disagree with me. :-)