{"id":1973,"date":"2007-09-27T20:16:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2007-09-29T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T23:50:28","slug":"activerain-discovers-that-the-code-of-web-20-is-the-code-of-the-west-do-unto-others-before-them-others-do-it-unto-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1973\/activerain-discovers-that-the-code-of-web-20-is-the-code-of-the-west-do-unto-others-before-them-others-do-it-unto-you\/","title":{"rendered":"ActiveRain discovers that the Code of Web 2.0 is the Code of the West: Do unto others before them others do it unto you"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Code of the West ain’t some words on a page
\nYou just naturally know it when you come of age
\nYou eat when you’re hungry, you drink when you’re dry
\nYou look every man in the eye<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the nineteenth century, rogue investors like Jay Gould and Big Jim Fisk would buy up parcels of land parallel to a successful railroad. They would lay some track and invite reporters in, regaling them with tales of the new railroad they planned to build in direct competition with the going concern. The owners of the competing railroad would panic, racing to put together a buy-out package that would get the rogues to sell out — at many multiples of their initial outlay. Did they ever intend to build anything? No one ever put them to the test.<\/p>\n

It’s the Code of the West when the boys talk of women
\nThe Code of the West what you know you don’t tell
\nThe Code of the West a man soaps his own saddle
\nBrands his own cattle and some of his neighbor’s as well<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A century later on Wall Street, greenmailers like T. Boone Pickens would put together minor stakes in bloated corporations, then announce with great fanfare their intention to incite a proxy battle, thus to sell the company off piecemeal. The bloated boards of directors of the bloated corporations would race off to find a white knight investor, who would buy out the rogue investors at a handsome profit.<\/p>\n

If you’re buildin’ fences then I ain’t for hire
\nYou get me for nothin’ and I’ll bring the wire
\nYou patch up my windows, I’ll plumb up your doors
\nIf you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the world of Web 2.0, we have a similar scam, only by now the entrenched interest has the game figured out.<\/p>\n

Let’s say you and two college buddies have built a Web 2.0 “platform” — which is to say something stoopid, goofy and — at least temporarily — viral and sticky.<\/p>\n

Why did you do this? To build a business? To set an example? To leave a legacy in the world of hi-tech commerce?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

You built it to sell it to Google Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Code of the West ain’t some words on a page You just naturally know it when you come of age You eat when you’re hungry, you drink when you’re dry You look every man in the eye In the nineteenth century, rogue investors like Jay Gould and Big Jim Fisk would buy up parcels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2526,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2526\/activeraincom-and-housevaluescom-the-ultimate-irony\/","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":0},"title":"Activerain.com and HouseValues.com- The Ultimate Irony","author":"Brian Brady","date":"January 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Activerain.com received a capital infusion to the tune of $2.75 million from Housevalues.com. 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