Cutting to the chase - it’s all the rage, and one tough business. Following up, Blodget and Co. look at online video cost structure.

And here’s more opinion regarding online video purveyors’ ability (or lack thereof) to reach critical mass.

Time Magazine punted this year, and declared their “Person of the Year” was you. Yes, you. It was supposedly the year of user generated content - unfortunately, the magazine missed the boat. They forgot that all the user generated content sucks (Spamroll included) - everyone creating that content was too busy fighting viruses to producing anything of value.

Damn it, 2006 wasn’t the year of user generated content - it was was the Year of the Zombies!

Well, maybe Time did get it right; they just didn’t know it.

UPDATE: Even Microsoft gets it. Now, let’s see if they do something about it, since last time I checked Linux and OS X installs weren’t getting hijacked too often.

A couple of weeks back I commented that some of the “old” dot-com ideas that CNET shot down might not deserve the slamming they got. The premise was that some of the dot-com failures had merit in one way or another, and not to be surprised if some of the same business models rear their not-so-ugly heads again and make someone a lot of money.

Well, the October ‘05 issue of Business 2.0 has an article entitled “Everything Old Is New Again” that suggests much the same thing.

Now, I am neither suggesting that Erick Schonfeld got the idea for this article from Thought Market, nor am I suggesting I am some brilliant genius. It is just nice to know that other folks are thinking the same way about some technology-based business models, particularly when it comes to the web (something I am still very bullish on).

Interestingly though, Schonfeld also noted that investors are going nuts for models that revolve around the latest concepts: blogs, social networking, user-generated content. Why do I find this so interesting? Because some colleagues and I are working on a project that involves all three buzzwords, simultaneously, and I thought it might be fun to tease you a bit.