Comments on: Weekend miscellany http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/04/weekend-miscellany/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Remi Rotthaus http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/04/weekend-miscellany/comment-page-1/#comment-20826 Remi Rotthaus Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:22:49 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=2579#comment-20826 I love how in the video he gives a slight pause before saying "CD-ROM Player". It made me laugh. I love how in the video he gives a slight pause before saying “CD-ROM Player”. It made me laugh.

]]> By: Wedge http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/04/weekend-miscellany/comment-page-1/#comment-20725 Wedge Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:26:25 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=2579#comment-20725 The "cloud" has the same problem today that web commerce, web 2.0, the "semantic web", etc. have had and continue to have. At the core there are very reasonable, valuable, even somewhat transformative if not revolutionary ideas. The problem is that there are so many hucksters, snake oil salesmen, and marketing con artists who've latched onto the web and these terms and have woven them into their BS sales pitches that the terms have lost a lot of their value. 95% of the time these days when someone is talking about "the cloud" they're off in lala land where people productize leveraged synergies into the semantic cloud in order to reconfigure value. That being said, I think it's an interesting idea and will probably evolve into something very worthwhile. However, again, I'm reminded that for the 1st and 2nd dot-com eras it took a lot of people losing literally millions and millions of dollars for people to actually get serious about commerce on the web and commerce on the social web. Given what's going on now with "the cloud" I think we're going to see the same examples of craziness and massive irrationality leading to pain and eventually to a semblance of maturity. The “cloud” has the same problem today that web commerce, web 2.0, the “semantic web”, etc. have had and continue to have. At the core there are very reasonable, valuable, even somewhat transformative if not revolutionary ideas. The problem is that there are so many hucksters, snake oil salesmen, and marketing con artists who’ve latched onto the web and these terms and have woven them into their BS sales pitches that the terms have lost a lot of their value. 95% of the time these days when someone is talking about “the cloud” they’re off in lala land where people productize leveraged synergies into the semantic cloud in order to reconfigure value.

That being said, I think it’s an interesting idea and will probably evolve into something very worthwhile. However, again, I’m reminded that for the 1st and 2nd dot-com eras it took a lot of people losing literally millions and millions of dollars for people to actually get serious about commerce on the web and commerce on the social web. Given what’s going on now with “the cloud” I think we’re going to see the same examples of craziness and massive irrationality leading to pain and eventually to a semblance of maturity.

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