Can you help me install Web 2.0 on my Vista? I bought it at Best Buys

July 13th, 2007 | Category: Web Marketing, Video, Web Industry

Chris Pirillo is a fraud, although he’s a popular tech speaker and runs a tech conference he’s a fraud because he “can’t get his Web 2.0 to work on his Vista”.

Alright, I’m just kidding, Chris isn’t a fraud, he’s actually very clever. Watch the video above is Chris who got suckered into a tele-sales call. Finally, the third guy he talked to actually knew what he was talking about. Funny stuff Chris.

Terry Chay says that Web 2.0 has jumped the shark, as people are starting to put silly terms in their resume.

David Kellog says that Facebook is a cooler company than Google and created this handy chart that I’ve printed out and put in my wallet. Um, no offense, but how did Plaxo get that high on the list?

(Update: Plaxo has hired a good PR firm, Alicia from their company emailed me and explained to me some recent things that Plaxo has been doing with their latest release. I told her to leave a comment below with the same content, and I’ve offered to put a link to Scoble’s recent interview with them. I can’t watch ‘em all ya know, I’ve got my own show to watch)

What buzz words will we start seeing on the corporate web management resume? “Web 2.0 implementation, community manager, and RSS deployment, facebook API development, soap, ajax, ~~palmolive~~, I mean dove”.

Leave a comment:
What companies are the most henious in blatently selling themselves as a Web 2.0 companies?

8 Comments so far

Moksh Juneja July 13th, 2007 1:40 pm

Loved the new buzz words!!! Did I check out the video - one guy states that the company is into Web 2.0 implementation for the last 8 years. Is that possible???
terry chay July 13th, 2007 1:43 pm

“Jump the shark” was actually Chris’s term for it. But you won’t see me get in the way of that train wreck. If I see another pair-programmed SaaS Ajax’d API mashup built on hibernate, it will be too soon. I especially like when “Naresh” had 8 years of Web 2.0 consulting.

“How did Plaxo get that high on the list?”

If I read that list correctly, it’s basically the way this list works: the engineers at one company piss on the managers of the one below it. I was working at Plaxo last year, when I first said that shit about Yahoo!’s management/strategy. That lead to a very embarrassing incident involving me, Dave Filo, and a lot of alchohol that I should blog about sometime.

What companies are the worst offenders?

Have you been to JavaOne?

As an engineer, I’d have to say the worst offender is 37Signals…
http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/may/terry-chay-on-rails
jeremiah_owyang July 13th, 2007 1:56 pm

Moksh

8 YEARS? I say I’ve been doing it for 8 Decades, and I’m only in my 30s, I’m THAT good!

Terry, oh dear, let’s hear that story, but let’s reenact it on video.
Lisa July 13th, 2007 2:45 pm

I don’t think Palmolive fits. CLOROX, maybe. Or COMET. Or TIDE.
Jeremiah Owyang July 13th, 2007 2:59 pm

Dove?
terry chay July 13th, 2007 5:55 pm

@Lisa: Ahh the infinite obsession with web engineers and cleaning agents: SOAP? AJAX? etc.
or is it Greek Myths: AJAX? JSON? etc.

@Jeremiah: Bah! Web 2.0 on the Resume is so Web 1.0. The new thing is to use it as a pickup lines…

http://iminlikewithyou.com/game/detail/16725

“These are my Web Two-point-Ohs Ohs!”
Larz July 13th, 2007 6:42 pm

You’re an asshat Chris. “web 2.0 doesn’t exist, people are selling air”

ok dude…

What websites have you done?
terry chay July 18th, 2007 6:05 pm

Larz means besides Lockergnome.

I think some people need to get aboard the cluetrain. The fact is, the biggest critics of Web 2.0 are the ones who do Web 2.0 for a living. We know there is no “there” there:

Here is a clue and a more civil discussion:
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/why_theres_no_s.html