Wild Wild Web
These past couple of weeks I've been working on two Rails projects and during this whole process I've been reading blog posts, articles, watching videos; all this to gain more knowledge on developing websites.
Then it started to hit me that there is a huge industry dedicated to servicing techies. And this leads to the conclusion that there are a lot of people developing on the Internet. Everyone seems to talk about this Dot.com Bubble 2.0 that's emerging. Now, I'm too young to even have been a part of Bubble 1.0 but from the looks of it, I think people are right; it's looking like the Wild West out here.
Everyone is out to cash in on the next big idea. So now there seems to be a whole new segment of the industry that's dedicated to serving this "entrepreneur" population. Just like during the Gold Rush days where dozens of businesses popped up to service the crazy gold diggers. And guess who ended up making most of the money? That's right, it was the pickax, boot, and gold pan makers. Now history is repeating itself.
Take Rails for example. There's videos, ebooks, textbooks. All these people are cashing in on the Ruby Rush. Interested in writing a social application with Rails? Well there are two books coming out tailored just to that. I remember when the only option for Rails shared hosting was TextDrive. Now you can find over 200 Rails hosts.
And just take a look around the Internet. Rails, Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch: all these rest on the shoulders of techies looking for the next big idea. Microsoft's been servicing businesses for years. Even Amazon is getting into it with their S3 and EC2. And the new "in" thing is to release an API for developers. Once again, they're just equipping these hungry gold diggers with their pickaxes and boots, but it's them who make most of the profit in the end.
But lets not forget, the king of kings: Google. They make most of their billions by giving the gold diggers a way to advertise on their websites. Genius!
Making the next YouTube or MySpace might seem like a glamorous dream. But to really rake in the cash in this Wild Wild Web, we better start learning how to make boots.
Then it started to hit me that there is a huge industry dedicated to servicing techies. And this leads to the conclusion that there are a lot of people developing on the Internet. Everyone seems to talk about this Dot.com Bubble 2.0 that's emerging. Now, I'm too young to even have been a part of Bubble 1.0 but from the looks of it, I think people are right; it's looking like the Wild West out here.
Everyone is out to cash in on the next big idea. So now there seems to be a whole new segment of the industry that's dedicated to serving this "entrepreneur" population. Just like during the Gold Rush days where dozens of businesses popped up to service the crazy gold diggers. And guess who ended up making most of the money? That's right, it was the pickax, boot, and gold pan makers. Now history is repeating itself.
Take Rails for example. There's videos, ebooks, textbooks. All these people are cashing in on the Ruby Rush. Interested in writing a social application with Rails? Well there are two books coming out tailored just to that. I remember when the only option for Rails shared hosting was TextDrive. Now you can find over 200 Rails hosts.
And just take a look around the Internet. Rails, Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch: all these rest on the shoulders of techies looking for the next big idea. Microsoft's been servicing businesses for years. Even Amazon is getting into it with their S3 and EC2. And the new "in" thing is to release an API for developers. Once again, they're just equipping these hungry gold diggers with their pickaxes and boots, but it's them who make most of the profit in the end.
But lets not forget, the king of kings: Google. They make most of their billions by giving the gold diggers a way to advertise on their websites. Genius!
Making the next YouTube or MySpace might seem like a glamorous dream. But to really rake in the cash in this Wild Wild Web, we better start learning how to make boots.
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