Now I present a list, of stuff, I want to remember, and check in on in a few years which are all proof of the potential, abuse, and the potential abuse.

Eg 1. CouchSurfing

Eg 2. iJustine can instantly send a message to 65,000 people, and they will all (likely) read it.  Water finds it’s own level.  IE; you are who you follow.

Eg 3. PostSecret

Eg 4.  Reddit (this is nothing new, but a perfect example of potential that is abused, often.  My friend, Mr. Avila points it out here)

Eg 5. FreeRice

Eg 6.  SecondLife

Eg 7.  This guy – thinks he can sell 1 million pieces of “art”, because of the web.

Eg 8. DesignerCondoms found this on Julia’s site

Eg 9. ThisGuy – perfect example of abuse. He has a rank of 500K, I’m still at 3M.  There are something like 16M *.coms, so I’m doing okay, I guess.

Eg 10. RSS – I think it is STILL full of untapped potential. Everybody should learn how to use it (and share like I do). Again more information at accelerating rates of flow.  Only 5% of the internet use it, yet approximately 90% of the top 100K sites offer it. Another example of abuse of the web; I don’t have to give a reference for that.

Eg 11. I bought stock in this small little company, today. Maybe you heard of it, but chose today because of the web.  I had been considering purchasing GOOG for a while now.  By “a while” I mean weeks.  The demographics surrounding internet usage leave no guessing as to which direction growth in the space will occur.  While I was was considering picking up some shares anyway, today in my twitter feed, I see Fred Wilson saying he’s picking up shares.  I look at my watch list, it’s getting close to a 8 or 9 month low.  “He’s right”, I think to myself. Minutes later, Swan agreed with his purchase, and later in the day wrote this post.  All before 12:30.  12:36, Lindzon left a comment, saying he did the same.  I figure a) I liked the stock already and it was only a question of when not if and b) all of these gentlemen are more successful (more experienced, and older) than I, so count me in. And so, I bought at the close, and I thank them for letting me get the cheapest price .  Collectively, I wonder how big our purchase was, and how many sellers got to hit the bid because of Mr. Wilson.  That’s impact.  But it was in part because of the internet, and twitter, and the speed of information flowing that the three of us purchased stock today. So, I’m going to plan on holding GOOG for a very long time.  What a better stock to hold as an icon, than GOOG?

Was this post, and EG 11. an abuse of potential? No.

For the record,  before today, I have never made a purchase on some one else’s signal, but today – it felt ok.  I’m no follower.

Disclosure – Long Sandvine, Long GOOG, and long the flow.