The Internet as a place to do business
One of the great things about the Internet as a place to do business is that just as you think innovation is grinding to a halt, new ideas spring up in the oddest of places, triggering a fresh wave of products and competition. It can be brutal, but it can also be fun. I’ve been following Fred Wilson’s Blog for a year or so now; his commentary isn’t too breathless about the technology and focuses more on how it will impact our lives. Fred’s a VC, so he has a slightly different perspective on things, but in his recent blog, the Golden Triangle, he talks about the three mega trends that will influence the web over the next few years: the social web, the mobile web and the real-time web. For me, it brought two things spring to mind: one, that we are in the early stages of the next big wave of innovation and two, Jiva Tech will be right in the middle of it, given that our products leverage the emerging social and real-time elements of the Internet. As I said, its going to be brutal, but it should also be fun.