#69: Jeremy Pepper on Web 2.0 bubble

Ahh, the bubbling keeps on happening, this time Jeremy Pepper asks questions about the Web 2.0 exuberance. Heck, let’s just call it a bubble, OK? Last time I called something a bubble (the Silicon Valley housing market) the prices just kept going straight up (the Mercury News now reports that the median price of a home in Santa Clara is more than $700,000 — when I lived there three years ago it was less than $500,000).

So, let’s call it a bubble. Let’s throw wild, exuberant, parties and have wild wild fun.

Heh.

The TechCrunch style of party isn’t anything like the Industry Standard party. Heck, it isn’t even close to the shindig we throw at the PDC every year where we take over Universal Studios. Now THAT is a party!

Update: I’m really sorry for misspelling Jeremy’s name.

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21 thoughts on “#69: Jeremy Pepper on Web 2.0 bubble

  1. You never know a bubble is a bubble until it already breaks and enough time has passed to be able to see what went wrong and when.

    Let us enjoy the times we are living in today and worry about what we are going to call this period later. For all we know this age might be called the renaissance of the web, but you don’t really know until we can look back on it historically.

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  2. You never know a bubble is a bubble until it already breaks and enough time has passed to be able to see what went wrong and when.

    Let us enjoy the times we are living in today and worry about what we are going to call this period later. For all we know this age might be called the renaissance of the web, but you don’t really know until we can look back on it historically.

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  3. Hey Scoble, while you are rushing to reach #100 by Monday evening, why don’t you talk about memeorandum. A couple weeks ago, this site was like web 42.0 according to you, the holy grail.
    And now that it has been proven many times that A – B – A linking is enough to splash memeorandum on the face, I wonder where you stand with it.
    Or, is there any reason to believe in better information manipulation, erm. information management when this information is being manipulated by humans?

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  4. Hey Scoble, while you are rushing to reach #100 by Monday evening, why don’t you talk about memeorandum. A couple weeks ago, this site was like web 42.0 according to you, the holy grail.
    And now that it has been proven many times that A – B – A linking is enough to splash memeorandum on the face, I wonder where you stand with it.
    Or, is there any reason to believe in better information manipulation, erm. information management when this information is being manipulated by humans?

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  5. Pepper! We’ve met, we’ve walked Times Square, we’ve shared a room … geez.

    I am just putting questions out there. Techcrunch parties might not be the same as the rooftop ones, but those pictures sure give me flashbacks and worry me. Remind me of those parties, with the same names and the same poses and the same looks.

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  6. Pepper! We’ve met, we’ve walked Times Square, we’ve shared a room … geez.

    I am just putting questions out there. Techcrunch parties might not be the same as the rooftop ones, but those pictures sure give me flashbacks and worry me. Remind me of those parties, with the same names and the same poses and the same looks.

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  7. Jeremy, sorry about that. By the way, I never went to a rooftop party. I always heard about them, but was never invited.

    Anon, I still visit Memeorandum about 10 times a day. It is still — by far — the best news site on the Web. And, it has less than 1% gaming. Slashdot gets gamed all the time. You never see us discussing that, do you?

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  8. Jeremy, sorry about that. By the way, I never went to a rooftop party. I always heard about them, but was never invited.

    Anon, I still visit Memeorandum about 10 times a day. It is still — by far — the best news site on the Web. And, it has less than 1% gaming. Slashdot gets gamed all the time. You never see us discussing that, do you?

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  9. It’s cool, Robert uust had to tweak.

    For some reason, people have nicknamed me Popper because of the Corporate name and my last name.

    But, you did hit on an afterthought that I had – the invite list to the launch party was very similar and A-list heavy as those old rooftop parties.

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  10. It’s cool, Robert uust had to tweak.

    For some reason, people have nicknamed me Popper because of the Corporate name and my last name.

    But, you did hit on an afterthought that I had – the invite list to the launch party was very similar and A-list heavy as those old rooftop parties.

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  11. Jeremy: one difference, though. TechCrunch parties are open invites. You just need to read TechCrunch.

    And, all the events I do are open invites. If you were in SF today you could come to sushi.

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  12. Jeremy: one difference, though. TechCrunch parties are open invites. You just need to read TechCrunch.

    And, all the events I do are open invites. If you were in SF today you could come to sushi.

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  13. Oh it is a bubble, when you only have at max less than a dozen buyers. GYM, eBay, Murdoch and Diller, I can’t think of any biggie others. But it is almost a reach to call it a bubble, as bubble means something someone wants, pushing the prices up, until they can no longer sustain the hype. Very few actually want all this mismash Web 2.0 rot. Even those that think they need it, overspent royally.

    The housing bubble is dead-real too, nothing can forever go up. Already popping here in Sacramento, Bay Area will take awhile longer.

    So party on, like you partied on last time, fail to learn the lessons of the greatest loss of human wealth in HISTORY (yes, literally), but member eventually the credit bill is due.

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  14. Oh it is a bubble, when you only have at max less than a dozen buyers. GYM, eBay, Murdoch and Diller, I can’t think of any biggie others. But it is almost a reach to call it a bubble, as bubble means something someone wants, pushing the prices up, until they can no longer sustain the hype. Very few actually want all this mismash Web 2.0 rot. Even those that think they need it, overspent royally.

    The housing bubble is dead-real too, nothing can forever go up. Already popping here in Sacramento, Bay Area will take awhile longer.

    So party on, like you partied on last time, fail to learn the lessons of the greatest loss of human wealth in HISTORY (yes, literally), but member eventually the credit bill is due.

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  15. Yes, I actually sincerely hope the housing bubble, at least in my state (Rhode Island) bursts in about a year or so. At that point, the wife and I will be in a position to buy a house and I’d rather not due it at the peak of the bubble.

    I’ve talked to one person who purchased a house at the peak of the last one 20ish years ago who were injured financially for a long long time. And I’ve talked to others who once it burst bought a bunch of condos, sat on them for a few years, and are now sitting in millions.

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  16. Yes, I actually sincerely hope the housing bubble, at least in my state (Rhode Island) bursts in about a year or so. At that point, the wife and I will be in a position to buy a house and I’d rather not due it at the peak of the bubble.

    I’ve talked to one person who purchased a house at the peak of the last one 20ish years ago who were injured financially for a long long time. And I’ve talked to others who once it burst bought a bunch of condos, sat on them for a few years, and are now sitting in millions.

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