Comments on: Here We Go Again: Dotcom Bust 2.0 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/bust/ Uncommon Sense in Marketing & Media Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:22:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: coolrulespronto http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/bust/#comment-55 coolrulespronto Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:54:36 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=43#comment-55 AOL still exists and still provides internet service to a lot of people, but it's just a shell of its former self. For the vast majority of Web users, AOL is irrelevant. Could that be YouTube's fate in 2010 or 2011? When every site on the Web features video, will Google regret having paid $1.6 billion for a large but generic video site? Icebox, The Den, and IZ were all Web 1.0 video sites that went belly up. There's a good reason you never heard of them. AOL still exists and still provides internet service to a lot of people, but it’s just a shell of its former self. For the vast majority of Web users, AOL is irrelevant. Could that be YouTube’s fate in 2010 or 2011? When every site on the Web features video, will Google regret having paid $1.6 billion for a large but generic video site?

Icebox, The Den, and IZ were all Web 1.0 video sites that went belly up. There’s a good reason you never heard of them.

]]> By: marquisdejolie http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/bust/#comment-51 marquisdejolie Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:52:03 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=43#comment-51 Whatever happened to AOL? Is it still around? And what was the Icebox? The Den? And IZ? Whatever happened to AOL? Is it still around? And what was the Icebox? The Den? And IZ?

]]> By: Bold Lentil http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/bust/#comment-41 Bold Lentil Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:56:44 +0000 http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/?p=43#comment-41 But surely there is some strategy in being the biggest online video dump? Or maybe the video clips plus a videoRank algorithm linked to a gmail account plus your IP address plus your last 20 queries could be useful for something that other video dumps couldn't pull off? I'm sure video storage will proliferate but I'm not sure that means YouTube will be the next AOL. But I'll get some pop corn regardless.. But surely there is some strategy in being the biggest online video dump? Or maybe the video clips plus a videoRank algorithm linked to a gmail account plus your IP address plus your last 20 queries could be useful for something that other video dumps couldn’t pull off? I’m sure video storage will proliferate but I’m not sure that means YouTube will be the next AOL. But I’ll get some pop corn regardless..

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