Dabble Land v. Telco Land
Welcome to the world, Dabble! You didn't have to ask permission — you just launched today, and you're a zippy new place that lets users create guides to online video. (You've got a blog, too! Good work!) There's no telling what you'll be able to do in time — you're the first of your kind.
People are uploading video by the scores, and they'll need to be able to find what they like. You're filling that need.
It's a need we didn't even know we had a year ago.
Dabble Land is an interesting place. People have ideas, they have energy, and they just put their heads down and work. (Go, Mary!) Then they launch something new and watch it grow.
It's useful to contrast Dabble Land with Telco Land. According to a fine article in BusinessWeek:
Welcome to Telco Land, a strange country where the biggest players talk more and more about innovation yet approach new ideas with baby steps, build little themselves, and when they think about technology are apt to believe it's a threat they have to fight.
The telcos keep claiming that innovation comes from them — but today it's coming from Dabble Land. And in fact Dabble may be deeply troubling to the telcos because its success depends on the popularity of user-generated video. And user-generated video (which is not Telco-Land-generated video) is taking off in that old hockey-stick way we got so excited about six years ago.
Welcome, Dabble! Let's hope that Telco Land keeps moving slowly. They'll never catch up.
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