Second Internet Boom

Esther Dyson (www.edventure.com) does extensive research on user-generated value, so there's definitely a major trend there to be leveraged professionally or commercially.

One insight I came across recently is that different Web companies focus on different things: LinkedIn focuses on building people's credibility, whereas Yahoo! Answers (www.answers.yahoo.com) focuses on accountability (through their scoring system) and on the message per se (it doesn't matter who you are, what matters is what you think).

Specifically, LinkedIn users don't say much. They are just building their credibility, and the more credible they seem to be (from their profile, etc.), the more people join their network.

Yahoo! Answers, on the other hand, drives people to express their knowledge, but doesn't provide users with an easy way to connect to one another.

A profitable business can be built by linking these two services.

I feel that a second Internet boom is brewing, and is about to burst into global public consciousness.

The question is, "Who will realize it first and make a fortune?"

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