The past few months I’m feeling like it’s 1999, all over again.
All the creative energy, all the brilliant ideas, all the new cool stuff popping up all over the Web. You know it’s happening when the pace of change is so fast, you need hourly updates just to keep track.
Except back then we called them [portals](http://slashdot.org/) and today we call them [blogs](http://www.techcrunch.com). And back then we built applications for the Web, did open source, streamed audio over the net. Now it’s building applications from the Web, doing open source, and streaming audio both ways.
Same difference.
You just need to casually walk around and talk to people, and you hear the same thing over and over again. New idea that will change how people do things. Getting funding is easy. Finding talent is hard.
It’s 1999. Welcome back.