Sphere Sucks

Jason Levine points out that Sphere is even more splog-infested then Technorati. Plus even the non-splog results are very weak. No point in ever going back to Sphere, if this is the best they can do at launch then there is no reason to think it can rebound. The only good thing is that according to Om Malik (who was "impressed" with Sphere) they only spent $200k on their so far grade-Z search product.

Calacanis on Web 2.0

Not to turn this into all-Calacanis all the time (he's not a bad guy, just annoying and a fun target) but, here's some collected Jason C wisdom on web 2.0:

Youtube.com = not a real business
Digg = extremely raw and suspect
Wikipedia = on the verge of coming apart
critical bloggers = freaks

The first three on the list have the distinct disadvantage of having either having more users/reach or being rumored to sell for more then Weblogsinc. The last item is true.

If You Can’t Take the Heat…

Scobleizer throws in the towel and decides to stop blogging. For now. Still waiting for the chorus of "Come back, Scobleizer!" which is usually the main reason for people who publicly announce that they will be taking a break from blogging.