web 2.0

I have tried Twitter on many occasions in the past and I can even use EQO for Twitter updates, but Twitter has never stuck for me.  Today, I was reading the blog of social media guru Chris Brogan (as a customer evangelist ought to do) whose Twitter Revisited post inspired me to give Twitter another shot.  Earlier in the day I had even watched this Jeremy Owyang video with Guy Kawasaki (another customer evangelist hero of mine), which made mention of Twitter and its usefulness.  It really seemed to me like all the cool nerds were on Twitter, convincing me to give it another shot.  I posted a couple of Tweets and then decided to follow Chris Brogan.  Turns out I am his three thousands follower, resulting in a personal thanks.  Immediately after and likely because of said incident, a few more people decided to follow me.  Cool, instant gratification indeed.  I'm going to give Twitter a serious shot now, for at least a week:)  Anybody interested in Twittering with me, my id is chriseqo.  Looking forward to the Tweets!

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

If you haven't seen the Bubble Video, made famous by TechCrunch and the many lawsuits coming it's way, watch it now. I freaking love this video for many reasons:

• It is hilarious.
• I can point out to my older khaki pants, blue shirt wearing product management colleagues that they star in this video for being obsolete:)
• Web 2.0 is getting a bit ridiculous and this video wouldn't be getting so much attention if this wasn't true. Just look at all the companies listed on Go2Web2.0. Many of these sites exist because they can, not because they should.
• The buzzwords are getting out of hand too, although I do giggle whenever someone says "mobile penetration". I encourage more video mockeries be made to make buzzword saying people (mostly MBA's) feel ridiculous. I may start playing Web 2.0 Bingo at conferences...
• Hopefully this takes those Rails/Ajax developers and their inflated egos down a peg, restful this...
• Blog, blog, blog it all, blog it if it's big or small! You don't have to blog if you don't want to, really, you don't have to.
• Pokes fun at people with giant egos who are successful in part due to luck. I hate giant egos.

Don't get me wrong, I love Web 2.0 and all the social sites that have pretty much replaced everything I used to do on the internet. To be successful you do have to have changing the world as your goal and I know first hand how hard it is to build a great product/service that does just that. However, it seems like people are trying to ride the web 2.0 wave to quick riches these days. For this reason, the justified mockery begins. I wish people would make viral video mockeries of more fads, like say for tight jeans, Volkswagen vehicles, and reality TV, as a start.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist