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Fast Forward to 2007
Markets come and go in cycles. Here’s Peter Rip’s insightful analysis of why Yahoo’s announcement of slowing ad spend is a harbinger to Enterprise 2.0, to be hurried in by the VCs looking for the next frontier in the next 12 months. The startup market recovered from a prolonged ailment in early 2005 on the
Family Connections
Just read about a service called Friends For Families on Techcrunch. It aims at providing matchmaking services for families who want to make new friends with compatible dynamics. In a country like America where a large number of people are immigrants, either from other countries, or from other parts of the US, an individualistic, lonely
Map Spam Coming
Last week, Flickr announced GeoTags, highlighting the increasing importance of the “place” dimension in the largely “virtual” Internet. “When we were doing our projections for how many photos Flickr members would geotag, we though that we’d hit Spiral Jetty a million in the first month, maybe even as fast as two weeks. Instead, 24 hours
Microsoft Gets FaceBook
Google got MySpace, but Microsoft gets FaceBook. We know why Microsoft went after FaceBook, but why did FaceBook say yes? Facebook COO Owen Van Natta says that Microsoft’s technology and approach are a better fit because they are newer to online advertising than Google and Yahoo and its technology doesn’t have to be “retrofitted” to
Online Video: More Activity
Now that Sony Pictures Entertainment has gone in for online video site Grouper in a $65-million-dollar deal, the obvious question becomes: Who’s next? (NYT DealBook) • Go to Article from BusinessWeek • Go to Article from The Deal.com • Go to Article from MarketWatch I wrote last week, Comcast acquires YouTube? which I still think
Newspapers, Wake Up!
Actually, Washington Post just did. Jeff Burkett writes: washingtonpost.com BlogRoll Program Launched. Jeff’s instincts are right. There are bloggers with high quality content who would be willing to share ad revenues with the Post in exchange for serious traffic. Steve Rubel applauds the effort, and offers some suggestions on how to go beyond a wimpy
Comcast Acquires YouTube?
There are a number of articles on YouTube today: TechCrunch, GigaOm, PaidContent, along with a comparison from LightReading on video sharing sites. The business model question on YouTube continues to come up, people assuming that they will eventually monetize the eyeballs. YouTube could also become the empowering engine for VideoSharing for various sites like TimeWarner,
As AOL Reinvents Itself
A smart little acquisition occured today. AOL bought an Instant Messaging service that powers, among others, MySpace. Userplane licenses its technology to more than 100,000 sites. I really like plays like this that power thousands of web sites. Photobucket is an example of a similar play, that acts as a repository for photos that can
