4. Dot-com depression.
For much of 2008, things appeared to be just dandy in the Web world. Then the roof caved in on the U.S. economy, and tech companies got trapped in the rubble. Suddeny, every Web 2.0 startup CEO worth his or her salt was writing a blog post with a title like “Tough Times. Tough Decisions,” announcing layoffs and expressing short-term pessimism and long-term optimism. Big companies such as Yahoo and Sun made massive staff cuts. There were even rumblings of cutbacks at–gasp!–Google. And let’s not even talk about the media business. One type of Web outfit is thriving, though: Sites such as It Died that track the devastation all around us.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
December 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Nice work – although I almost agree with Relyt… a bit too much Appletalk for us old school Microsoft geeks who are too stuck in our way to move to Apple. I wonder what the stories of 2009 will be – my guess is that electronic medical records and personal health records will be up there!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Nice work
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Relyt Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
February 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i work in the cellphone industry so with my perspective, its pretty near impossible to overemphasize the impact the i-phone has had.