During the past week I was looking for topics to write about and there was a few rather interesting ones even though they weren’t exactly scoops. But that’s not what I want to write about. I want to write about all the useless web apps that I kept finding when I was looking for something useful.

I admit there’s some truth in that if you just fiddle around and create nifty little apps or services you can make something very useful in the end, but only if you believe there’s something much more than that, something big and game changing in the end. For example, I agree that fiddling is largely how Twitter got started. But if it’s for a quick buck or quick success and you’re putting all your time and energy into it, it’s just cutting short your potential as a human being and wasting all our time.
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