Forbes Column 08: Web 3.0: Not yet

Today’s Forbes Column looks at the state of the union on Web 3.0, and concludes Web 3.0: Not Yet. In this context, for those of you interested in the subject, and with blogs of your own, if you are interested in publishing an excerpt on Web 3.0 from my book, Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume One), please email Maureen Kelly at mkelly at bizbookpr.com.

Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse (Part 3)

SM: So let’s go back to the point where you were seeing this in the Middle East. How long did it take you to jump ship and start your own thing?

WK: I also read a book, Atlas Shrugged, at the same time I was making those trips. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Aggregate Knowledge

Aggregate Knowledge (AK) provides content discovery through the Pique Discovery Network, a service that imitates how people shop for products offline and translates that into opportunities for retailers and publishers online. >>>

Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse (Part 2)

SM: What was unique about what you were doing? How did it change the environment you were operating in?

WK: This particular product was different because we put it in the inlet of an ethylene furnace which can be 1,800–2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That is a very tough environment to work in from a chemical standpoint. It was a successful test project. >>>

Will Amazon Kindle Vertical Integration?

I wrote a controversial Forbes column, How Amazon Could Change Publishing, in the spring. In this column, I submitted that Amazon could disintermediate traditional publishers and agents, and free up money that they could share with authors. My hypothesis was based on the fact that since Amazon has a technology-based merchandising system capable of figuring out which of its customers might like what other books, it could target those customers to bring to market other books within a particular genre. >>>

Hydro Energy Entrepreneur Wayne Krouse (Part 1)

Wayne F. Krouse is the chairman, chief executive officer, and founder of Hydro Green Energy. He founded the company in 2002 after a short but distinguished career with Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals. He was the Research & Development chairperson of the National Hydropower Association in 2007.

SM: Wayne, where do you come from?

WK: I am originally from Natchez, Mississippi. My family moved around a lot. We also lived in Houston and Memphis for periods of time, but we always came back to Mississippi. My senior year of high school we were in Memphis. I then went to Tulane University [in New Orleans] and got a degree in chemical engineering. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: ImageSpan

The world of copyrights and content licensing is a mess on the web. Plagiarism runs amok. People tend to be very cavalier about stealing content. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we will look at a company that attempts to put some structure around the evidently unmanageable content licensing and monetization issue. >>>

Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 7)

SM: What have you learned through your two ventures, especially DimDim, which is an especially ambitious project?

DD: Learning throughout AIM was very steep. I realized on my second or third day that I did not know anything about business at all. >>>