{"id":1274,"date":"2006-10-12T02:18:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T02:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2006-10-12T02:18:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T02:18:44","slug":"the-web-according-to-ballmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1274","title":{"rendered":"The Web According to Ballmer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of my boss at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convergenceculture.org\">C3<\/a>, an interesting <i>BusinessWeek<\/i> <a title=\"The Web According to Ballmer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/oct2006\/tc20061011_940241.htm?campaign_id=bier_tco.g3a.rss1011a\">interview with Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Ballmer<\/a>, right before the big GoogTube deal went down.  I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the online video space lately, and I have some trepidation about the Web 2.0 bubble going kerflooey the same way the Web 1.0 bubble did.  The feeling of deja vu settling about my ears is intense; the last time I graduated and went to explore the job market was in 2000, right when the first bubble popped, and I&#8217;m hoping up to high heaven that the same thing won&#8217;t happen when I emerge blinking into the sun with my newly-minted Master&#8217;s degree.<br \/>\nEnh, whatever.  Anytime I read or hear anything from Ballmer, I think the same thing: <i>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2tX4N2oUa2Q&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">developers, developers, developers, developers<\/a>!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of my boss at C3, an interesting BusinessWeek interview with Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Ballmer, right before the big GoogTube deal went down. I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the online video space lately, and I have some trepidation about the Web 2.0 bubble going kerflooey the same way the Web 1.0 bubble did. The feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-ky","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}