News Corp’s Vertical Posturing

News Corp has just acquired Photobucket in a strategic move to monetize its MySpace asset. My prior writings leading up to this acquisition are below: * News Corp : Bewildered Pioneer * Monetize the MySpace Parasites * Web 3.0 and Photobucket * Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing : Overview * Web 3.0 & Photosharing :

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Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Synthesis

Photo sharing is one of the top segments online and the top 10 photo sharing sites in the US draws as many as 50 million users every month. According to Hitwise, 4.9% of all Internet traffic went to the top 20 social networking sites like YouTube, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr and Facebook, making photo sharing one

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Web 3.0 and Shutterfly

We have already discussed an overview of the photo sharing industry and looked closely at the leaders: Flickr, Photobucket and Kodak Gallery. Here we will take a look at Shutterfly’s offering from a Web 3.0 perspective.

Web 3.0 and Kodak Gallery

We have discussed an overview of the photo sharing industry, Flickr and Photobucket and here we will take a look at Kodak Gallery’s offering from a Web 3.0 perspective. In July 1999, a group of Internet veterans started Ofoto, an online photography service in Berkeley, California. Eastman Kodak acquired Ofoto in June 2001. In 2005

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Web 3.0 and Flickr

Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield of Ludicorp, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based Company launched Flickr in February 2004. Flickr is a photo-sharing site, which allows users to search, upload, create photo albums and share them with community members. Flickr has 17 million unique monthly visitors. The company was taken over by Yahoo in March 2005. Flickr

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Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Overview

Photo sharing is one of the top segments and in the US the top 10 photo sharing sites draws around 50 million visitors each month. In this series, we will evaluate the category against the web 3.0 framework. Photo sharing is gaining in popularity fueled by its online community features, which allow millions of users

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Kodak’s Turnaround Formula

Kodak has just announced its turnaround strategy of going against the grain of the printer business, and drastically cutting the prices of ink cartriges from the industry norm of $30 down to $10 for black and white, and $15 for color. The ink business is $45 Billion a year, and Kodak currently has no position

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