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| Feb 7, 2007 | Simple Web 2.0 Traffic Trends Tracker | The folks over at eSnips have created a simple website for tracking “Web 2.0” traffic trends. The website uses Alexa data. I’d love to see someone create a similar website that ranks these Web 2.0 websites (or rather, these ones) by using v... |
| Feb 6, 2007 | Apple Openly Supports Death of DRM | Steve Jobs has stepped up to the plate and written an open letter to the music industry in the fight against DRM. We wrote our thoughts on the eventual demise of DRM just last month. Bill Gates gave his own thoughts on DRM back in December.... |
| Feb 6, 2007 | Amazon Partners With Tivo; Steals Walmart's Thunder | On the same day that Walmart launched a competing movie download service and then fell flat on their face over simple browser compatibility issues, Amazon announced an incredibly cool, long rumored new partnership with Tivo.
After several m... |
| Jan 29, 2007 | YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors | YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley has hinted future plans of revenue-sharing at YouTube in the coming months. The BBC is speculating that the ads might take the form of 3-second pre-roll, but Chad Hurley didn’t mention that in his comments.
Th... |
| Jan 5, 2007 | Amazon.com launches independent Endless.com | In a quirky move, Amazon.com has launched their own independent shoe and handbag niche website, Endless.com. Shoes and handbags will still be available on Amazon.
Endless really hides the fact that Amazon owns them — you have to dig into th... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | Google Starts Selling Domains For $10 Per Year | Google has entered the domain business with partners GoDaddy and eNom. An already crowded industry, Google has begun allowing people to register ‘.com’, ‘.net’, ‘.biz’, and ‘.info’ Web site addresses. Web sites that register their domains d... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | Merry Microsoft Christmas, Oracle and IBM! | Microsoft’s latest operating system, Vista, which went on sale to corporate customers November 30 — can not run the latest version of Microsoft’s corporate database product, MS SQL Server. Microsoft is working on a SQL Server upgrade (SQL S... |
| Dec 10, 2006 | MyBlogLog adds MySpace support | As 2006 closes in, my favorite web service of the year is MyBlogLog. Despite Yahoo! acquisition rumors a few weeks ago, the company is still privately-held. If I were in the web M&A business, they’d top my list along with music social n... |
| Dec 1, 2006 | Online Job Hunt 10 Years Later – Still Sucks | NYC-based Indeed.com, a niche search engine, has announced a partnership to power Mamma Careers. I’ll be the first to admit, this specific instance isn’t big news, but they are on a partnering spree, alongside their primary competitor, Simp... |
| Nov 15, 2006 | News Corp: MySpace Worth $6 Billion | In an investors meeting in Australia yesterday, Rupert Murdoch said that MySpace could now be sold for $6 billion — about a 10x return on the original $580 million that News Corp. paid for it.
In other news, one of the many MySpace alternat... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Microsoft's Entertainment Domination Plan | Forget the fact that Microsoft is being overshadowed by Google and that Google is looking like the 800lb gorilla beating down Microsoft . Microsoft has other plans they’ve been working on — plans that have been really coming together the pa... |
| Nov 2, 2006 | Amazon Puts Internal Links Up For Sale | Amazon.com’s subsidiary A9.com has built a new pay-per-click (PPC) advertising network called Clickriver. Clickriver will allow advertisers to display text ads alongside Amazon.com’s product pages and search results. This service will compe... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | No plans? Meet New People via Activities | No plans this week? Or, ever found yourself with an extra ticket to a concert or sporting event, but didn’t have anyone to go with? In the past, your solution was wading through Craigslist postings or calling all your friends. Well now ther... |
| Oct 18, 2006 | Microsoft and Yahoo Prepare to Battle Google | Google’s momentum was echoed publicly by both Microsoft and Yahoo today. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, stated that Google is making it difficult for them to recruit top talent. Also, in a move to likely earmark more dollars towards acqui... |
| Oct 17, 2006 | Universal Music files suit against Grouper, Bolt.com | On the day of the Google/YouTube acquisition, YouTube announced a licensing deal with Universal Music. Apparently, Grouper and Bolt.com didn’t get the memo. Universal Music has come out swinging in their first online video-related lawsuit a... |
| Oct 16, 2006 | LinkedIn Expanding Model to Service Recommendations | LinkedIn, a social networking website primarily focused on business connections has added a section to their site that allows users to recommend service providers — a yellow pages based on user referrals. From web designers to doctors, user... |
| Oct 16, 2006 | MySpace Makes Subtle Shifts to Emphasize Video | We wrote earlier about News Corp’s unease with the Google-YouTube acquisition. For the last few weeks News Corp has been engaging in a one-sided PR war with YouTube – from News Corp. COO Peter Chernin’s recent comments that 60-70% of YouTub... |
| Oct 9, 2006 | 5 reasons why Google is looking to purchase YouTube | Rumors have surfaced that Google is in talks to purchase YouTube for an estimated $1.6 billion. Google’s own video site, Google Video, ranks a distant third in the ‘online video’ segment (MySpace Video is #2), with YouTube dominating the to... |
| Sep 22, 2006 | Will Tivo box the Amazon Unbox? | Amazon is reportedly in talks with Tivo to enable movies downloaded from the Amazon Unbox service to be sent to TV sets via the Tivo. Strangely, stock prices for both companies took a quick leap this morning before quickly losing gains agai... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Exclusive – Zookoda Goes Up For Auction | While some companies have the ability to hire investment banks to help them sell themselves (see Grouper and Napster for recent examples), eBay is proving to the be liquidity path of last resort for many struggling web startups, or those th... |
| Sep 20, 2006 | Roundup: Apple secrets, India hype, Cheney’s visit, VideoEgg, Zillow, | Here is a shotgun of the latest stuff in raging Silicon Valley, leading of course with video:
VideoEgg gets easier — VideoEgg, a site that lets you download software so you can post video on any site, has partnered to make the process easie... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | Socializr in Private Beta, zzzzzzzz | Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams is getting ready to launch his new startup, Socializr. It looks like it’ll be a social network/event organizing site…You can go through a “gamma” application process on the home page, or just read Steve Po... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | Abrams’ Socializr, an event site, launches; will it match Renkoo, others? | Jonathan Abrams, the founder of path-breaking social networking company Friendster, has launched a test version of his new site, Socializr.
The site says it is “a free web service for sharing event and party information with your friends. U... |