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Web 2.0 Bubble

Hmmmm. Which Web 2.0 Internet companies might not make it through this credit and financing crunch? If you don’t have enough finicing, credit, a decent business plan, or a business model, and/or your angel capitalist runs out of cash too, you’re in trouble – hopefully temporarily.
We’ll probably see a lot of mergers, acquisitions, closings and downfalls over the coming six months, especially after year end. Watch carefully – there will be some interesting combinations and some of the traditional vendors will be able to pick up some great features for a song.
Here’s an article from this week on cNet news.
October 10, 2008
11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos?
It speculates that these companies could be on the bubble:
Twitter
Meebo
TripIt
Zillow
Pandora
Second Life
Skype
Ask
DailMotion
NetVibes
MySpace
And now that Yahoo is heading for $12 territory, that old Microsoft offer looks great and a merger with AOL just seems puny. I still say it’s not over.
There are opportunities in every market downturn.
Stephen

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Posted on: October 12, 2008, 12:32 pm Category: Uncategorized

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  1. Magalie Le Gac said

    From NZ SLIS & SLA:
    Stephen Abram had a brief stop in Wellington and addressed an audience of 125 librarians there, delivering a talk about transformational librarianship in organisations, and the way our profession transforms information into knowledge, often without even realising it ! He spoke about the power and politicisation of search engine companies and highlighted the ways in which we market our services to clients, and other topics.
    SLIS and SLA made a DVD of his talk, and this will be showing on Tuesday 21st October at 6.00 pm at the Auckland City Library, Waitemata Room
    The lively talk is delivered with Stephen’s usual style- lots of gusto and fun. The DVD runs for about 1 hour so come along and hear from someone who is in touch on a daily basis with the movers and shakers in our industry.
    Date: Tuesday October 21st
    Time: 5.30 – 6.00 for drinks and networking, and we will start the DVD at 6.00 pm
    Location: Waitemata Room, Level 3, Auckland City Library, 44 – 46 Lorne Street, Auckland City.
    Charge: $5 SLIS-North/LIANZA/SLA members; $8 non-members Library & Information students free.