I found this on the web yesterday, while preparing some collateral for work, and couldn’t wait to share the hilarity. The formula to any Web 2.0 logo is painfully obvious. And like the designer of this little nifty poster, I’m utterly bored and yet overwhelmed all at once. Every day some random social network pops up about something. Ning tried to put it all together, but as we all know, the (big) cheese stands alone. So every day, I’m pained with going on Facebook, Myspace, sometimes LinkedIn, amd remebering passwords from my blog, mail, stock photo, corporate, and other misc. accounts. And for security purposes, they are all different depending on the security level required, etc. Enough already! I think I need a freakin’ harddrive just to carry all my usernames and passwords. And now YouTube and imeem (wtf is up with the 30 second clips? getting sued sucks, but um… so does losing your customer base b/c your service went from interesting to ever other p2p service… over!) require accts too. bah!
So thank goodness that Micropersuasion, among other blogs (which I will not name only b/c I’m not in the mood to go searching for them again) are starting to discuss network consolidation, virtualization (although I’m still not 100% sure what that is), and Web 3.0.
I felt like I was ready as soon as I jumped into the tech PR field. I mean afterall, “social media” has been around since I was a wee little sophomore in college, and since everything is new b/c the concept it new… nothing is really… changed or different or better. Add the word “social” and better becomes a popularity contest about network growth and size. And how is it possible that MySpace has so many many users? I didn’t even know that many people on earth had computers and internet service (yes corporations, brands, and other entities have accounts too, but omg, why would you want to have to check multiple accounts at each of a dozen venues? I get all twisted just trying to describe it).
I just wish people would follow TD and start acting instead of chatting around the virtual block.
