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Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 3)
Web 3.0 Framework discussion Context News Corp. has got its Context right. Be it sports (FoxSports or Scout), entertainment (Fox or AmericanIdol), Social Networking (MySpace), games (IGN or GameSpy), Men (AskMen) or Photo-sharing (Photobucket) the Company is bang on in terms of Context. If I am looking for men’s fashion and lifestyle information, there is
Web 3.0 & Online Movies (Part 4)
Web 3.0 Formula Discussion Context Different users have different tastes and they visit the same movie site with very different intention. While one may like to watch an action flick the other might like to review a classic love story to watch with his or her date. These sites have something for every kind of
Making Search Engines Work Like Engines: Automatically
By Jörg Überla, Guest Author Isn’t it astounding? Within only a few years, the majority of the adult population in the industrialized world has learn’t that searching is a matter of the right keywords. You type in your request, get 100,000 something results and try to narrow them down. This is a fantastic business model
Web 3.0 and Verticalization
I have worked with the Web 3.0 framework for months now, and taken a crack at defining how the web is likely to evolve in the future. So here’s a recap of the thesis so far. I will be adding a dimension to this framework shortly, so it is a good time to stop and
Web 3.0 & Online Sports (Part 4)
Web 3.0 formula discussion Context Most of the sports sites that I went through have very good contextual nuances. These sites have something for every sports fan. I liked the way sites like NBA.com, MLB.com and NFL.com have covered the respective sports. If you love Basketball and want to check out on some stat or
Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 4)
Web 3.0 formula discussion (4C, P, VS) Context Online health portals are targeted at meeting specific user needs. HealthGrades for example provides ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, thereby, aiding the consumer to select the best physician and treatment. In most health sites, the context is split-up between men, women
Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 3)
Business Model Online health sites earn majority of their revenues from advertising and sponsorship programs. They also earn revenues by licensing and retailing products through their site. WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD), the leading portal for online health, for example, saw its advertisement and sponsorship revenues grow by 45% to $52.4 million and licensing revenues increase by
Web 3.0 & Online Health (Part 2)
Top Players and Rankings With more and more users going online for quality content on health, fitness, medication, and expert advice, there is a rising demand for healthcare portals. Some of the top sites for health are WebMD Health, NIH.gov, MSN Health, Yahoo! Health and EverydayHealth. Health queries, medication, symptoms are very popular among users.
