Random Wednesday Thoughts

I love the towns we operate in. They all have so much going on, lots of great people and a sense of civic pride that makes them fun to live in, and fun to visit. And I love our websites. As we’ve grown and are now in our 4th iteration of our websites, I have seen so much change. Yelp started the same month we did (no need to make fun, I know how the two tracks look ), but more than Yelp, it was the start of user reviews, user generated content and the truly social web. I hate the term Web 2.0 more and more, it really is a good term for it, however it has become such a buzzword that only people who missed what the last 3 years online were about are using it.

The internet provides such a great platform for people to share their thoughts and ideas. Photos videos, reviews - who ever thought we would care so much about what other people had to say, I mean the 90’s was all about “whatever” and “as if”. Well I guess now people are talking to their friends online rather than to the hand, which is probably a good thing. But the web today is all about different ways of sharing content. People keep creating new ways of sharing it, of creating it and of consuming it. Its really exciting.

Running a small business is really tough these days. I see it every day establishments go out of business, our customers tell us their woes and people are spending less when they go out. But you run into those people who are making the best of it, being happy and enjoying a positive outlook. I don’t even know what this post is about really, I’m just really excited about things today. Being as I am bipolar I will probably be miserable next week, but today I’m psyched.

We’re launching a bunch of great features over the next few weeks, alot of things are finally getting settled. And of course we’ve had 5 days in a row of sunshine. That never hurt anyone