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Been playing around with WordPress 3.0 for the last week and have found it to be a fantastic update! Can not wait to see how hard I can push this over the next few months…

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I don’t love the internet like I love my family & friends, or even how I love chocolate.

I love the internet because it’s probably the most signifiant wealth enabler in the history of mankind. At least since the invention of stone and then metal tools.

When I sit in front of my screens and bang out line after line of code, I’m doing more than just building web properties. I’m creating wealth!

Not only that, when I make a web property or service that people want, I deliver to all customers at once. Unlike a blacksmith who creates wealth one horseshoe at a time, I make one horseshoe and as many people who want it get it at the exact same time; with zero incremental cost of delivery. This kind of wealth multiplier has never existed before. It has a dark side of course; every mistake is multiplied as well, but the positives far outweigh the negatives. You can respond extremely quickly and cheaply to people’s changing wants.

This is not news, but I’m working hard with my team on building our digitalOttawa.ca startup. we’re moving into our new offices downtown this week, and I’ve been reading and watching all kinds of business wisdom & inspiration to get me pumped up about pushing forward.

Here we go!

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I’ve started to hear a new buzzword out there… The Statusphere!

groan!

It’s suppose to refer to how short twitter/sms-like status updates are starting to replace blog posts and comments as way people share their thoughts across social networks.

I’ve been saying for the last year that users syncing updates across all socail platforms would be the big thing. Maybe I should start referring to it as everyone’s syncosphere? My syncopshere includes Twitter, Facebook, jasonprini.com, and my mobile device. But I have several syncospheres. For example workstudents.ca auto syncs updates with Facebook and Twitter, and can be easily pushed by users to other networks like LinkedIn.

But really, do we need these buzzwords at all? Maybe once “social media” jumps the chasm and turns back into just “media” again, we’ll be able to move on past these word-crutches. But probably not.