Category Archives: Web2.0

CONTEST: Want to Try Out The “New” RealPlayer? (I Have An Extra Invite)

Yet another contest — this time for an alpha build of RealPlayer

Yahoo! — “Search Is History”. Translation? “We Should Have Bought Facebook When We Had The Chance”

Yahoo says personalization. I say they mean social networks. I guess they should have made Mark Zuckerberg a better offer.

The Real Lesson Behind Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors — And It Ain’t Listed In His $12,107 Breakdown

Its his star power, actually. And can you put a price on that?

Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1112h: Building A Web Business — With Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist, Part 2

More:

 On the newspaper industry:

I think its easy to point to the Internet when you’re laying people off to raise profit margins to please Wall Street.  In my mind its unfair to lay it our feet and its done to maximize performance.

“Do you see a day where advertising is a greater percentage for newspaper companies?”
What is [...]

Could Ask.com Ever Topple Google? Wait, Let Me Stop Laughing First.

Don’t laugh — but that’s the meme that’s kind of floating around, since Allen from CenterNetworks proposed how he might orchestrate it, with Read/Write/Web chiming in with their three cents.
Don’t get me wrong: making some strategic moves makes sense if you’re content to be the third fiddle (or fourth, or fifth) to Google’s chief fiddler [...]

Contest: Spock.com Invitations … Who Wants One?

Hi guys,
Spock.com is a startup / web application that specializes in finding information about people.  I will be posting my own thoughts about it a later date (soon), but suffice it to say that it does a little more than scan social networks. It also search engines, and automagically creates a permanent page for [...]

Facebook Builds “Reverse-API” — Will Get *Others* To Build *Its* Mashups!

Wow … its not 100% ballsy, as big players will actually be lining up to do this.