Employment 2.0

One would hope that while progress is allegedly made on the user interface of the Internet under the dubious guise of Web 2.0, that perhaps more down to earth practises connected with these upstart trailblazing businesses are also taking hold. We are all well versed on the extravagances of the dot com boom – pool tables and popsickles were all the rage. However, I was thinking more along the lines of progress with other more useful changes in these high growth high-worth companies. Flexiworking, teleworking, those sorts of things. Apparently, as a self-proclaimed Web 2.0 company, Bebo may not have embrassed Employment 2.0 working practises.

I found this log in and log out electronic time card on the bebo staff website. Any ex-Bebo staff know if its for real?!  My little group of staff roll in at anything from 8am thru midday – and some spend 90% of their time working from home! Suffice to say, when I saw this, I couldnt beleive my eyes.

Microsoft still dont care about browser compatibility

Great to see Microsoft making their own Windows Website compliant for use on Firefox – which atleast 15% of internet users use (more in some countries)

Its meant to look like this! >>>

Bubble 2.0?

What are your views?

I still think it could go either way – but given some of the valuations banding about, one does wonder whether its sustainable for more than a year or two. The answer? maybe not; and definitely not if the current trajectory doesn’t get modified.

However, I’m unconvinced the markets en general are falling in love the same blind way they did in the 90’s. I also disagree with some of the assumption made (for example) in this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2164136,00.asp   …mobile, for example, will not be the drop in the ocean that this article beleives. With 2.4 BILLION subsribers (thats twice as many as ‘regular’ internet users) the mobile will come to dominate our lives even more than it already has, over the coming 3 to 5 years.