Web 3.0 & Travel Search Engines

We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline and LonelyPlanet from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier. Here we will take a look at the popular travel meta-search engines, Kayak and SideStep in the light of the web 3.0 framework. Kayak was founded in January 2004

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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

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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.

Blue Nile’s Remedy

David Philips wrote an article on Seeking Alpha, called On Blue Nile’s Lackluster Business Strategy last week. Those who have followed the company for a long time, know, that Blue Nile (Nasdaq: NILE) is one of those rare gems, a dotcom era survivor. In many ways, they are a posterchild of a business that exploited

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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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Gap’s Turnaround Strategy

Visualize the Banana Republic store. It has a few floors of merchandise. When you walk into this store, very little of this applies to you. You are a size 4 woman, dark haired, brown-eyed, olive-skinned. Your style is rather more professional and clean-cut, than much of the frills and laces that you look around and

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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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