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- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
web frameworks
eBay’s Next Few Acquisitions
eBay’s StumbleUpon acquisition is done. I wrote about it, in eBay’s Foray’s into Media. Not much to add on the topic, except that the price has changed. eBay eventually ended up acquiring the company for $75 Million. One critical point I made in my previous analysis is that eBay needs to plug the leakage in
It’s About Place (Part 2)
by Cal McElroy, Guest Author In a previous post, I suggested that integration of search and location technologies was a difficult problem, that has not been solved. To provide some context for this series on local search, I want to dig into the technologies a little more. Location technology emerged out of the computer graphics
Web 3.0 and Jobs: Overview
Jobs is one of the top online segments in the US with $5.9 billion online advertising revenues, which constitutes around 25% of Internet ad revenues in the US. The online job market has been steadily taking away market share from newspaper classifieds. In this series, we will evaluate the online jobs category against the Web
Shutterfly: Acquisition Target?
Jim Clark launched Shutterfly on December 13, 1999. On the same day Clarkâs 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 :
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
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
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
