Web 3.0 & Yahoo! Travel

I have just published an overview of the Online Travel segment. You may want to read that, before reading this review. In this section we will analyze the Yahoo! Travel site based on the Web 3.0 framework. The site provides information on travel destinations, best bargains on hotel and travel fares. It has an attractive

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Travel & Web 3.0: Overview

Online Travel is one of the top segments that draws over 2% of the Internet traffic and approximately 24% of online advertising dollars, and in this series, we will evaluate the category against the Web 3.0 framework. According to a report published by Hitwise, Online Travel sites accounted for an average of 2.02% of all

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The Pro-Am debate

And just as I wrote the Newspapers, Roll Up! piece, I read this one on Techmeme. Fascinating read. :: Are blogs a ‘parasitic’ medium? Commentary: Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question. By Robert Niles Posted: 2007-03-02 Over the past months, I’ve heard several

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Blogging Networks

At the conclusion of my post Blogging: Time vs. Money, I said that I would write about how I see blogging networks evolving in the future. It seems to me that many of us are in this zone of time versus money trade-off wrt blogging, and don’t have the time to do all the functions

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Blogging: Time versus Money

Chris Anderson in The Long Tail writes a good analysis on the amount of time we’re all putting in to Blog, and not paying attention to the ad dollars : DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB. He quotes : An interesting tidbit from Guy Kawasaki’s wrap-up of his first full year blogging. Note that his blog

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Blog Radio

TechCrunch reports on some cool services : BlogTalkRadio, TalkShoe, RadioHandi, Waxii. The idea is to turn successful Bloggers into Radio hosts. Sounds very cool, and if I can figure out some time management algorithm, I would love to try this. However, the market size seems miniscule to me.

Micro Media to Media Empire: The Roadmap

Journalists have found a wealth creation vehicle. More should follow. A new Media Empire made of Micro Media is viable with a roll-up strategy.