Or: Where the web is going, according to me.
The way I see it there are a number of similarities between the web industry now and the car industry at the turn of last century. Like the car we are living though something which is revolutionising people’s lives and a lot of companies are trying to stake their patch of land.
There are companies with early success like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon and eBay who have become household names like Ford, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Austin and Fiat. After these a second wave of websites sprung up with smaller successes, anything from MySpace, Flickr and Photobucket, Blogger and Wikipedia. In the same way many smaller car manufacturers started: Chrysler, Chevrolet, Dodge, Cadillac, Audi, Porsche, Alvis, and hundreds of others. Continue reading ‘The Web compared to the car industry’
