Comments on: eBay: Once You’re Dumb, Twice You’re Dumber

By: Inc. Magazine Reprints Long Lost Copy of 2006 BusinessWeek Digg Article : The Drama 2.0 Show

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:50:05 +0000

[...] 2006, BusinessWeek put its credibility in the hands of Sarah Lacy and came out a [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:42:14 +0000

In a previous life I set-up a company that did about $16m of gross sales on eBay, ending up with c.100,000 positive feedbacks.

I’d rather flip burgers than ever use eBay again. Can’t even be bothered going into why it is so sh*te now, because it isn’t worth the time that would take.

They are scr*wed long term, and if it wasn’t for Paypal (which thank god was so simple they couldn’t really mess with it), they’d be totally f*cked.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:15:25 +0000

Here’s a start on the buzzwords Shayne, courtesy of our own Drama 2.0 (though the second portion is missing a table tag, unfortunately):

http://www.drama20show.com/2008/05/29/drama-20s-dictionary-of-web-20-doublespeak/

By: Shayne

Shayne — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:52:47 +0000

I’d like to see a book written that craps all over 2.0 buzzwords like “community.” I’ve been using the internet for 10 years now and through my eyes “communities” online have always existed in the form of message forums. What the hell is the difference between what message forums have been providing to users for years, and all these new “social” utilities? Seems like they are just repackaging the same concept that’s been online for years already. Am I wrong?

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:03:57 +0000

…. oh, and the book should be in blog form, by invitation only, and free (of course)! And, needless to say, in perpetual beta and full of typos like Techcrunch, because the “dying old media” had it all wrong with their “editors” and “copywriters”.

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:00:44 +0000

Idea for a Web 2.0 book title:
“Dumb and Dumbr: once you’re naive, twice you’re delusional”