Normally we see it as our job to try and deflate the soaring egos of Tech Bubble 2.0, but in this case—the suggestion that Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom and company should get a Nobel Prize—Om Malik does the heavy lifting:
I know Jeff meant well but still to think of these gentlemen in the same vein as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela well I guess it was a trade show. As someone wagged, these comments are a good measure of how close this bubble is to bursting and you can see that in the swollen egos in the industry. Fifteen minutes, shall we say?
Skype CEO for Nobel Prize? [GigaOm]