Article: The next big thing often can't prove itself

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The echo effect. Are you using Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, and Sphere? Hardly a week goes by that the Internet cognoscenti don't declare some new service or tool as the next big thing - and if you're not using it, you're hopelessly behind. But Waltham venture capitalist Mike Hirshland, who spends much of his time in California, says Silicon Valley has created its own echo chamber of blogs, conferences, and podcasts, where early adopters all buzz about the newest site they've discovered.

Silicon Valley's early adopters, like the influencers in any of our country's major power centers (think Wall Street, Hollywood, D.C.) are so consumed with their own echoes in the chamber that ...

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