Web 3.0 and AOL Money & Finance

We have reviewed Yahoo, MSN and Marketwatch’s Personal Finance offerings in the earlier posts and today we are going to take a look at AOL Personal Finance from the Web 3.0 perspective.

Web 3.0 & Marketwatch

We have reviewed Yahoo and MSN’s Personal Finance offerings in earlier posts. Marketwatch Inc. is one of the leading providers of financial information, business news and analytical tools. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company Inc. Here, we take a look at Marketwatch from the web 3.0 perspective.

Web 3.0 & MSN Money

We have been discussing the vertical segments that old media companies are losing to new media, and have focused on Personal Finance as an important category. We covered Yahoo from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier, and here we take a look at Microsoft’s offering.

NYT: Print to Digital

The New York Times Company is a leading media company that publishes popular newspapers The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and 15 other daily newspapers. The Company also owns nine network-affiliated television stations and two New York radio stations. NYT owns approximately 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com.

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Will Gannett Pull It Off?

I wrote several pieces on the newspaper industry: Newspapers, Roll Up, Newspapers, Wake Up, and the Pro-Am Debate. Gannett (GCI) publishes 90 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications. Gannett’s popular newspaper USA TODAY with a

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Newspapers Losing Verticals to Online

Big chunks of the revenues of newspapers traditionally came from the verticals (Jobs, Classifieds, Personals, Real Estate, Cars, Travel, Events, Reviews). With the popularity of the online services ascending, and with huge investments made in each of those categories, the newspaper industry has been suffering, as ad dollars systematically flow out of print, and onto

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Viacom Confronts YouTube

Viacom (VIA) sues Google (GOOG) over YouTube. Read the WSJ clip: :: After months of negotiations that failed to produce any settlement, media giant Viacom sued Google and its recently purchased YouTube unit, alleging that the immensely popular video-sharing Internet site engages in “massive intentional copyright infringement.” The suit, filed in a New York federal

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Web 3.0 & Yahoo! Personal Finance

Yahoo! launched its Personal Finance site on January 19, 2006. In this piece, we will analyze the site based on the Web 3.0 framework.