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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WSJ, Business Week: Take Note

Adify defies Google Adsense, submitting a model for the rest of the “old” media industry to adopt and leverage, liberating them from the corner they have been pushed in by the onslaught of user generated media. Washington Post has already adopted the service. Wall Street Journal and Business Week ought to follow suit, and given

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Adify Challenges AdSense

Adify, the small ad network company that is powering blog networks for larger “old” media companies such as Washington Post just raised $19 Million in funding from USVP, NBC and Time Warner. In my Giving Up on AdSense piece, I referred to the WPNI program, which is powered by Adify. Amit Agarwal reports: ComputerWorld, the

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Web 3.0 and Seeking Alpha

We have reviewed Yahoo, MSN, Marketwatch, AOL and CNNMoney’s Personal Finance offerings in the earlier posts and in this final section of finance related site reviews we are going to take a look at Seeking Alpha from the Web 3.0 perspective.

Media Shuffles

On September 28 & 29, 2006, Heather Green & Stephen Baker reported that Business Week is having difficulties. During the AlwaysOn Network’s OnHollywood 2006 conference in May, media entrepreneur Tony Perkins noted that 62% of online content viewed by 21-year-olds is generated by someone they know. Perhaps, this trend is what has caused Perkins to

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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.

Pulitzer Prize for blogs

Here is an article I recently wrote for the MIT “What Matters” series …