Billion dollar brains

And how many of these companies are EBITDA profitable, and not lifestyle companies.

I remember the business week cover of Kevin Rose, which gave a similar mythos-narrative. But Digg never lived up to the hype. It flamed out.

But in a gold rush, you make money selling the dream

basically most of them are creating the same things on the internet "social networking" and advertising. It's just amazing that people from the old generation are supplying ammunition to the new generation on making easy money thru the internet.

I mean, come to think of it, the new generation creates the interesting stuffs and the old generation are the ones enjoying it with amazement. It's just a matter of inventions and creating a need for the invention.