All of a sudden technology was out of fashion in Silicon Valley. Now that the dotcom crash seems permanent, entrepreneurs are looking for real ways to make money. VCs are hunkering down for a long haul. The average IQ of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is zooming to its former stratospheric levels. There's a genuine excitement here now, but if you ask what the business model is you're going to get a boring answer.
Silicon Valley goes in cycles.
Downturns are a perfect time to dig in, listen to users, learn what they want, and create the technology that scratches the itch, and plan on selling it for money. Another teaser screen shot . In this example, the Wired News story is routed to my Dot-Coms and The Web channels. Think of this new software, the thing that Adam loves so much, as an editor's workstation. If you manage more than one weblog, you gotta have it.