Comments on: How gaming got its tail back

By: Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:58:43 +0000

Robert this article is worth your attention.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/13/global-or-die-is-there-a-future-for-local-startups/
I think we might as in all markets soon (5 years) see established players – memes – largely dominate, these are the good innovative years yet we might just not realize it yet.

By: Robert Gaal

Robert Gaal — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:01:09 +0000

I actually think that exactly the opposite will happen: we’ll have 200 million sites tailored to specific needs. That’s the whole point of an open system anyway: the long tail will take its course. You already see that happening with niche social networks for instance.

By: Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:50:27 +0000

Where we are playing in (web startups) is the one of the most creative playgrounds of the day IMO. It reminds me of when as a boy I would sit with my Sinclair spectrum (48k) and write my own games using Basic (bless him). In those days there were magazines with games in code that you copied out by hand for hours only to find they didn’t actually work (lol bastards). It feels very much like those early days on the web now where there are not the 20 titles that dominate and everyone is able to have a stab. The early games were much more innovative and interesting IMO than the list of top 20 that eventually emerged to dominate. Will it be that say 200 web sites will finally end up dominating the web, the same as happened with games?