Kurt Cagle lists out 12 traits of most Web 2.0 companies.
1. Mashups.
2. Extensive Use of Syndication.
3. Preferential Use of Open Standards and Open Source.
4. Diversity of Platforms.
5. Asynchronous Messaging vs. Synchronous RPCS.
6. Distributed...
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Stefanie Olsen asks what people at Yahoo and Google must be mulling every day:
Can a giant Internet portal like Yahoo or Google also create original content that people want to read or watch? Or are the portals destined to be like cable television...
NBC scored dismally with its TV coverage of the Winter Olympics but the response to online coverage of the event went better than expected.
This was the first year when increasing number of people went online to watch the Superbowl ads. And, then watch...
Jeremy Wright has done a great analysis of the Myspace phenomenon. Jeremy says that 'MySpace is the New Blogosphere',kind of Blogosphere on steroids. Two of his points are specially 'lookable'.
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(There are) about 30M Myspace Accounts vs. about...
Marketing Sherpa's latest report covers the booming usage of RSS feeds. It finds that many consumers across U.S. in fact do not even know that they are receiving their information via RSS!!
Your average web user does not recognize the meaning of the...
Explaining the challenge for media companies while targeteing tech-savvy teenagers, Jon Fine at Businesssweek points out the success of Myyearbook and Myspace as ideal benchmark beacons for all media owners lost at sea. There are serious challenges...
Desire Athow at Network Watch has compiled a great list of 48 improvements he would like in Gmail.
My favorites from the list:
No. # 2. Notepad like draft/tasklist
Gmail is very useful for storing notes and drafts that you are working on. You can...
Let's continue with the idea of Apple plus Microsoft. This idea never fails to inspire conversation like this one.
Now, supposing AppleSoft becomes a reality in some far, far galaxy, and you were given a choice between the two operating systems, the...
A judge has issued injunction against Google in the Perfect 10 Image Search case. As you know, Perfect 10 is an adult-oriented site dealing with biological [:-)] images. The judge ruled that Google's image search service, which displays small thumbnail...
Credentials listed on his resume are not all right. David Edmondson, RadioShack Corp's president admitted that 12 years ago on his recruitment in to the company he did lie about his educational qualification.
Edmondson had claimed that he received...
Valleywag reports that Google is planning a Web 2.0 version Geocities-like instant Homepage creator.
...Google has a project codenamed trogdor, an ajax webpage editor for creating web pages. = geocities except with a javascript page creator.
Calendar...
Can't Find On Google is the dump site fro all things that users have not been able to find on Google.
Goto
That appears to be borne true by a research done by Naci Mocan of the University of Colorado and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University.
They surveyed 15,000 high-schoolers in 1994 and again in 1996 and 2002. One question asked interviewers to rate...
Mike Butcher at Netimperative analyzes the developments at the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona.
He reports about the Telecom Operator's plan to launch PIMP - PIMP is the "Personal Instant Messaging Platform" apparently. They couldn't surely have chosen a...
A company can be so cool that people forget financial realities and start dreaming, though some may not be off the mark.
First there were rumors that Apple should buy Palm to get a toehold in the handheld market, especially since Apple is tuning up its...
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