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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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eBay’s Vertical Classified Strategy
The WSJ reports that eBay has quietly opened its classifieds site, Kijiji (what a lousy name!) to the US audience, positioned to compete against the wildly popular Craigslist, in which it owns a 25% stake. One wonders why eBay doesn’t just buy Craigslist; the answer to that question is that Craigslist’s founder, Craig Newmark, has
Google Great at Monetizing Crap
I had lunch with the co-founders of an ad network startup on Thursday. I will keep their identities anonymous, but I cannot help quoting one of them, as he put his finger on one of the biggest problems plaguing Google AdSense: It is great at monetizing crap, but offers absolutely no premium for high quality
Web 3.0 and Real Estate: Overview
So, you thought realty was all about buying / renting a new house and moving in? Think again. It’s a $3 billion online industry and is said to give a whole new dimension to the property business. In this series, we will evaluate the online real estate category against the Web 3.0 framework. Real estate
Who Should Buy Yahoo? For now, Nobody!
While I suggested 2 years back, that Yahoo and eBay should merge, at the moment, it appears that Yahoo has created a bigger mess than what eBay (or anyone else for that matter) ought to try to clean up on their shareholders’ clock. eBay, on the other hand, for the moment, looks like it has
Web 3.0 and Monster
We have already discussed the online job industry and have reviewed CareerBuilder. Here, we take a look at Monster’s offerings from Web 3.0 perspective. Monster, founded by Jeff Taylor in 1994, was the first online job search site. It pioneered the idea of having public resume database and job search agents. Monster has 18 million
Shutterfly: Acquisition Target?
Jim Clark launched Shutterfly on December 13, 1999. On the same day Clark’s partner from Netscape, Jim Barksdale, launched Ofoto. Shutterfly is headquartered at Redwood Shores, California and offers storing, sharing, enhancing and printing of photos, as well as photo merchandise. Shutterfly has over 900 million photographs in its archive and was awarded the Field
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 :
Microsoft’s Online Strategy
Microsoft has been scrambling in many markets. Particularly, it has been scrambling in the Internet segment, with Google dominating the online advertising space, and MSN lagging versus Yahoo as a portal. I have said before, that the big money in new media is going to be in the verticals. Microsoft actually has a very good
