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Industry of cool

By mwelch October 4, 06 09:48 AM

Source: Forbes

marissamayerlucky.jpgErika Brown writes some killer commentary about the Web 2.0oh! bubble culture in Silicon Valley. "In the past 18 months, companies that enable podcasting, blogging, web video and social networking have raised nearly half a billion dollars." Forget engineers starting companies to change the world. Today's tech entrepreneur-rock stars seem to be after fame and fortune. Industry parties focus on seeing and being seen and re-seen via blogs, vlogs and Flickr. Stay up to date on geek gossip at Valleywag or check out Google's Marissa Mayer in Lucky magazine. "Famous geeks are the new arbiters of cool."

It's bubblicious.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/09/28/yelp-google-internet-entrepreneurs-cz_eb_0929ventured.html

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