Incrementalism

I really enjoyed Jeff Nolan's article entitled "Incrementalism and The New New Thing ". It was also a sentiment echoed by Om Malik in a blog post referring to Jeff's article.

It is a thought that I am sure a lot of us have had for a while. The 2.0 startup crowd seems to have adopted a "With A Twist" strategy. i.e. Take a look at what website is hot and build a clone with a slight twist. The twist, more often than not, is nothing more than an improvement or added feature in the service. Real innovative web services are still few and far between. Now either we are running out of big ideas or entrepreneurs are just trying to make a quick buck. I really hope it is the latter.

On the flip side, it is kind of interesting that two of the biggest things to blow up in the past two years, Facebook and Twitter, still have to find a viable business model.