Flyover Country

To be sure, this is an endlessly rehashed topic. Jeff Yee, a former Softie, moved to Red Fin recently and has posted his thoughts about the matter on his Red Fin blog. I think he has a number of interesting points that are worth considering.

Almost all the top engineers I know talk ad nauseum about starting their own company, with the caveat of, “I’ll stay at big company XYZ for 2-3 years, then I’ll go out on my own.” Well, it never made sense to me how they thought that they could make the transition from being so removed from the business and the end to end process of creating and shipping a product.

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It seems to be, according to comments recently made by Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt:

Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

Small apps? Check. Data in the cloud? Check. Customizability? Check. Well, Popfly’s getting there at least.

Props to ReadWriteWeb for the original video, quote and analysis.

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