During the summer, we headed over to the Widget Web Expo, and caught Union Square Ventures partner and noted blogger, Twitterer, speaker, analyst and investor Fred Wilson after he gave the keynote address. The video’s got some glitches (especially the audio), but it’s still worth posting. Our fault for not digging it out sooner.
Wilson talks about how the term “widgets” needs to go — it gives a sense of a small thing that’s plugged into something else rather than a powerful tool on its own — and how he considered cutting back on his energetic blogging.
“I have written at least one blog post a day for at least five years. And as I’ve started to use other forms of self-expression … the ability to express myself long-form every single day may be waning.”
Well, apparently blogging isn’t completely dead. Though Fred does Twitter a lot, he still blogs a lot, too.
He also talks in the video about why the handmade crafts site Etsy is a fit for his firm, worthy of investment, even though it’s not really about a scaleable technology on the face of it. “It’s person-to-person marketplace. That allows them to create a lot of experiences around shopping.” He calls it “one of the most interesting e-commerce applications on the Web.”
