Prince’s 1999 – Web 2.0 Remix
Now that Web 2.0 party has officially been declared over by the last man at the open bar, Michael Arrington, I thought I’d put my songwriting skills to good use adapting Prince’s classic, 1999.
Eat your heart out Team Cyprus:
I was poking when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astrayBut I when I arrived at the Googleplex this morning
Coulda sworn it was judgment dayEric was all red
There were engineers runnin’ everywhereTrying to run from shareholder destruction
You know I didn’t even careTwo thousand zero eight party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999I was tweeting when I wrote this
So sue me if I type too fastBut Web 2.0 is just a party
And parties weren’t meant to lastAngry VCs all around us
My mind says prepare to fightSo if I go bankrupt
I’m going to listen to Arrington tonightYeah they say two thousand zero eight party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999Lemme tell you something
If you came to make a profit
Don’t bother knockin’ on my door
I got an iPhone in my pocket
And baby he’s ready to blowYeah, everybody’s got a dot bomb
We could all file bankruptcy any day
But before I’ll let that happen
I’ll stream my life awayThey say two thousand zero eight party over
Oops out of time
We’re runnin’ outta time
So tonight we gonna, we gonna (Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999)Say it one more time
Two thousand zero eight party over
Oops out of time
No, no
So tonight we gonna, we gonna (Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999)Alright, it’s 1999
You say it, 1999
1999
1999 don’t stop, don’t stop, say it one more timeTwo thousand zero zero party over
Oops out of time
Yeah, Yeah
So tonight we gonna, we gonna (Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1999)Yeah, 1999
Don’tcha wanna go
Don’tcha wanna go
We could all go bankrupt any day
I don’t wanna die
I’d rather blog
OMG, I love that shirt. Good to see you haven’t lost it yet.
This is hilarious. Can you get Milli Vanilli to sing it?
How come you didn’t talk about Loic Le Meur laying off half his staff the last month?
Loic is so full of crap. The seesmic platform has been 95% developed by outsourcing through a team of coders based in Romania. I can get you a clone of seesmic on rentacoder for $10,000 max with coders from Ukraine or Romania, you choose.
The truth is Loic leaves totally in the bubble 2.0 and has no clue of what a profitable business should be. I think he should go back to the HEC business school he’s coming from (I wonder how he got his degree) and learn how to lay a business plan. Same attitude as Zuckerberg: money will flow later. Yeah, right.
Because Loic’s plan was clear: build a website around another of these crappy web 2.0 socially pointless ideas and sell it ASAP. Problem is no one will buy it in the current financial context. Not to mention the poor website’s traffic (140,000 unique visitor on compete.com and steady since May ‘08, even after the introduction of his blog-embedd feature and purchase of thwirl).
I mean, seriously, does he even know what a budget is? He’s got $12M, right? And now, suddenly, he’s using the excuse of the financial crisis to lay off the very people who helped him marketing his crappy website. You should be ashamed of yourself, Loic.
Because guys, I tell you what: Loic is leaving the good life and burning these $12M in expensive restaurants, parties, business class flights back and forth to Europe and Asia to nurture his ego attending ‘conferences’, put his outrageously expensive SF apartment on the cost of the company and not to mention the out of this world hidden compensations and salaries for himself and his wife.
Mike Arrington and pretty much the whole valley has paled with the wrong guy and that makes Arrington a terrible investor.
He should have known better, because Le Meur did the same back in Europe before he decided to screw american VCs. And the worse thing is that Arrington helped a crook raising funds.
Anyway, Seesmic will be in the deadpool within 1 year max because it serves a wrong idea and a concept that yahoo had already tested and implemented. Damn it, can’t you send video responses in Youtube or what?
What were you thinking, Arrington?
Laura: I haven’t yet written about Seesmic because I’m in negotiations to buy the company.
I want to give it to my cousin as a Christmas gift and it will be less expensive than the new computer I was planning to buy him.
hahahaahah!!! hilarious. I only wish I could post my reaction as a Seesmic comment.
You people are full of jealousy and yourselves.
Seesmic has the money to survive quite a while before settling on a business plan. He’s got street cred, and the demonstrated ability to adapt to trends.
With Twhirl:
His company has an ‘end-point’ for data from seesmic, friendfeed, identi.ca and twitter [remember that "useless" tool the current US candidates are using for campaigning (read: marketing) purposes]. It is the most popular one out there(dipshit commenter “LAURA PARKER, above, fails to understand the simple idea that seesmic users access the site via the AIR app called Twhirl, or even what that means)and developing an AIR app like this requires expertise in XMPP and the relevant extensions (eg. Pub-Sub) that will power the real-time information flow around the web over the next 5 years (data portability, contact APIs, etc.).
With the forthcoming mobile phone app (first with Symbian, then w/ iphone, then…):
His company has a presence on the phone of individual users (much like flixwagon and qik) allowing for several touchpoints.
With Seesmic itself:
His company has the ability to provide user-generated video content all over the web, depending on his BD skills and ease of integration.
I don’t know Le Meur, and he could be a complete prick from the footage I’ve seen of him (mostly that PR savvy and ‘good at office-politics’ sets of my BS sensor off), but that opinion won’t cloud my ability to see that he is embedded in the industry and paying close attention to anything relevant.
This is my current opinion and we can revisit this when the time comes (deadpool or exit). There is a shake-out coming, but I’m not claiming to know for sure who will be left standing.
forgiveness asked for the shitty editing ahead of time, just getting used to the tiny 12inch screen…
coldbrew: this didn’t start as a discussion about Seesmic but I guess it turned into one.
So let me ask: are you shilling for a job at Seesmic? Probably not the best of timing.
For someone who claims not to know Loic and claims that he doesn’t know “who will be left standing,” your comment seems curious, especially since you start off by stating “Seesmic has the money to survive quite a while before settling on a business plan.”
Frankly, I could give a rat’s ass about “street cred” and “the demonstrated ability to adapt to trends.” I care about one thing: cold hard cash.
Question: how much money is Seesmic making?
Answer: probably less money than I made last week.
Doesn’t P–nce sue absolutely everyone who so much as mentions his name, including fans? This blog could be looking at its first lawsuit.
Comment curious? Please. Check your IP records. I have my own niche business (not free). I think it is good to remain objective and not get all self-congratulatory about one’s ability to bash other companies (I bash plenty). All I’m saying is that seesmic is in position to be a player. Their revenues are probably goose eggs, hopefully not close to what you made last week. I live in Boulder; come visit and we’ll talk (you can learn why Robert Plant found his wife here).
coldbrew: you’re right. Seesmic is in a position to be a player. On the Web 2.0 little league team.
Sam: Prince and I share the same attorney.
Little secret: if you put enough attorneys/firms on retainer, it’s a pain in the ass for people to sue you because they have to find an attorney/firm that isn’t conflicted.
That’s how I’ve remained lawsuit free since 2003.