Category Archives: Web2.0

How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media

Well, who knows if it really would — but I think one of the biggest inflections in Twitter’s popularity over the past 6-12 months has been the mainstream media’s push, and obvious love affair with socia media.  Of course, CNN is one of the biggest culprits / lovers so far, with almost every one of [...]

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Creating Web2.0 Knock-Offs Is An International Phenomenon

Well, it looks like there are a fair number of German rip offs of Silicon Valley web applications.  Nick Gonzalez points out to a Geni-clone, called Verwandt, which, when compared screens to screens, looks so identical, it almost looks shameless.  I guess after this post, its unfair to be knocking Chinese … er, knock-offs, as [...]

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TechCrunch Probably Covers 5% Of Web2.0 “Startups”

Mike Arrington probably covers less than 5% of all Web2.0 startups.  Note: this is just a number I pulled out of the air (or bottom — you decide).  Anyway, there are a ton of them that don’t get any kind of mention.  I get solicitations from time to time, but there’s a dizzying long list [...]

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Can Social Networks Improve Search Engine Results?

Because in the face of Yahoo integrating Flickr results, it makes one wonder if they’re going to start taking advantage of how Flickr ranks photos. And if it does — what does this mean for SERPs at large?

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Yahoo! Acquires Rivals: Seemingly Smart Content Move, But Where’s The Peanut Butter?

That is, where does Rivals fit within their overall strategy — or is this yet another case of being spread a bit too thin … like peanut butter.

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Is The Web2.0 Necessarily For The Young? No, But On Average, Almost Certainly Yes.

Of course you don’t need to be young — but it always helps when it comes to emerging technologies, mediums, movements or music.

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Andrew Keen: Totally Wrong, But a Magnificent Troll.

Andrew Keen, widely regarded as the curmudgeon of the social media set, sat down earlier today to take a few questions and answers from a few lowly plebs about his thoughts on social media. For those not quite familiar with his work, I’ll paraphrase it up for you: Mr. Keen believes that user generated [...]

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