Alright, I was cruising some of my favorite haunts (techcrunch) and came across this video. (after the break) I realized that perhaps he has a point. We review sites daily here, sites that are small, medium, and large and we also use social networks to get our point across as well as communicate with many people. Its also a fact that social communities and such are still around and will be around. But as for each person being individual there is truth in that as well.
We write reviews, this is what we do on this site. We don’t talk smack about a site we offer our insite on what i site holds and why its a great place to visit. What he says may scare you and the fact that what he says hits home has made me decide to share it. Please be warned that this does have some Not Safe For Work Audio.
Andrew Keen: Web 2.0 Is Fucked (The Next Web 2009) from Robin Wauters on Vimeo.
In a long speech – without notes – he talked about a new age of individualism. With the end of the industrial revolution, “we”, essentially are now “the product”.
He said we are entering a “revolutionary age in which traditional, industrial media is being swept away by individuals.” That sounds familiar to his previous pronouncements.
But his speech hit a crescendo when he practically shouted across the conference hall that “Web 2.0 is fucked! Web 2.0 doesn’t work – it doesn’t generate revenue.” Afterwards, he repeated the charge in the video above.
Keen believes traditional media dies with Web 2.0 and although technology enables self expression, is “not a viable media economy.” In fact he claimed even “TechCrunch, the leading Web 2.0 cheerleaders have come to the conclusion that YouTube [for instance] does not work”, does not create profit. We may have to check that…
But, ironically perhaps for some observers, Keen is now a fully-fledged fan of Twitter.
In fact he called Twitter the “nail in the coffin of Web 2.0″. He said it’s “the future of individual media in the age of the individual… a future when individuals become brands. People with skills are able to sell their skills on the network. I call this real time social media.”
But this is also “intimidating and scary” to him. It is “Darwin and Marx at the same time.” He thinks Twitter is “Feudal” in that those with large numbers of followers behave like barons of old, picking those they favour at random…