Web 2.0 Starting to Bubble?
March 21, 2005 1 Comment
It seems like the Web 2.0 bubble may be starting to form.
InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion
Ask Jeeves Purchases Bloglines in Multi-Million Dollar Deal
Yahoo acquires Flickr
Six Apart Buys LiveJournal
Are just a few of the headlines from the recent past. Web companies are starting to get some “real” money again and the amount of startups getting VC is once again on the rise. Should get interesting. Let's hope we learned some lessons from the last time. irrational exuberance is a term I never want to hear again ;)
–jeremy
It sure looks like the big companies on the web are getting ready to clobber at each other again. Perhaps this will be good for us, as users. Maybe its not going to go that way at all, though (but it sure looks like it).