Voices » Steve Rubel http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The Death of Tangible Media Is a Little Murky http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081117/the-death-of-tangible-media-is-a-little-murky/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081117/the-death-of-tangible-media-is-a-little-murky/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:02:51 +0000 Mark Hopkins http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=6036 By Mark Hopkins, Associate Editor, Mashable

You can always tell when the weekend is approaching. If it isn’t Twitter getting killed, it’s podcasting dying, death of blogs, slaughter of the record labels or one or more form of Heritage media. It’s honestly quite difficult to top it every week. On the one hand, we bloviators have generally no compunctions reusing the same media type, but for it to really generate a respectable bitchmeme, you’ve got to really be creative.

Steve Rubel, well known for predicting economic doom and gloom due to over-investment in technology, this week predicts the death of all tangible media.

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]]> http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081117/the-death-of-tangible-media-is-a-little-murky/feed/ 0 The Promise and Peril of Ubiquitous Community http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080516/the-promise-and-peril-of-ubiquitous-community/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080516/the-promise-and-peril-of-ubiquitous-community/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 07:04:28 +0000 Steve Rubel http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080516/the-promise-and-peril-of-ubiquitous-community/ By Steve Rubel, Blogger, Micro Persuasion

Over the last five years I have been asked countless times: “Steve, what’s the next hot online community?” It seems as though everybody is on the lookout for the successor to MySpace, Twitter or Facebook. Nobody, even in a difficult economic climate, wants to be viewed as a latecomer.

Perhaps as a defense mechanism to avoid being wrong myself, I now give a boilerplate answer that I believe can last. In short, the next big community is not a single destination. Rather, it is going to be everywhere. To paraphrase Forrester analyst Charlene Li, social networking is becoming “like air.”

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