1. ➶ A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

    Paul Carr at Techcrunch dissects the state of “web 2.0”:

    To make money — real money — at this game you have to attract millions, or tens of millions, of users. And when you’re dealing with those kinds of numbers, it’s literally impossible not to treat your users as pieces of data. It’s ironic, but depressingly unsurprising, that web 2.0 is using faux socialization and democratization to create a world where everyone is reduced to a number on a spreadsheet.

    Spot-on.

    Posted on Saturday September 17th, 2011