When was the last time your heart went boom?
What was the last time you saw something that dropped your jaw on the Internet? I’m not talking about the evolution of dance or laughing baby youtube video, I am talking about new apps, new ideas, new business models. What’s exciting these days? As we are putting the finishing touch to the LIFT08 program, that’s the question I am asking around here at Picnic.
Amazingly this question puzzles most of my interlocutors, triggers a long silence, and usually ends with a unenthusiastic “Facebook” answer. It seems Techcrunch is filled with clones of clones announcements these days (that’s not a knock on Techcrunch but on all of us, the entrepreneurs and innovators).
Where is the excitement? Where are the digg, twitter, facebook and second life of tomorrow? Nova (LIFT’s editorial manager) and me have some ideas, but I’d like to know what the readers of these blogs think.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
given my skew on things to financial, here are a couple of potentials:
- Revolution Money (think Paypal, and credit cards)
- Circle Lending (Virgin Finance US)
- TBA: a merger; a new company from the amalgamation of an old and a new perhaps
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
My heart goes boom for claimID…an online identity manager built on open web technologies as openId, microformats and microid.
A great service to help us about how we should manage our online reputation and identity and give us a reason to switch towards portable social networks…
ClaimID is definitely a service trying to fix the bricks of the future of the web…
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Thanks for the suggestions guys. We just invited Zong (for the revolutionary money part) and identity… big big topic, we should do a complete track on that, or maybe a mini event