Monthly Archives: January 2012

WSJ Analysis: Top 10% of YouTube videos make 79% of plays

A Wall Street Journal analysis of companies has revealed that many companies still cling on to big hits to drive earnings. Giving examples from Pink Floyd’s all-time hit album released in 1973 – Dark Side of the Moon that is … Continue reading

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Windows Live Spaces rolls out major updates, can it compete with MySpace et al?

Microsoft, in a bid to ride on the ever-increasing popularity of online social networks began rolling out a major update to its ‘Spaces’ blogging service. It has added new functionalities and includes features that integrates Spaces with other Live services. … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 marketing in ‘Snakes on a Plane’ style

This post in the InfoTech Watch caught my attention as it was about the phenomenal marketing success of the Samuel L Jackson flick – Snakes on a Plane, using the Internet as the main tool. The movie was all over … Continue reading

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Why Web 2.0 cos need to share ad revenues with Google?

This post by Donna Bogatin has got me thinking. She asks if Web 2.0′s biggest winner is Google AdSense. It says that while there is big talk in business journals and other media about the valuation of Web 2.0 companies … Continue reading

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Investor sentiments: Tech companies vs. Web 2.0 companies

I read this post by Ho John Lee with great interest citing the investor sentiment cycle of tech and Web 2.0 companies. He analyses the trend in the Silicon Valley, which he rightly says is built on optimism and entrepreneurship. … Continue reading

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AOL’s blunder may change how people think about privacy issues

AOL released a massive amount of private data without user consent or knowing what it was doing yesterday. This includes a staggering 20 million queries by 650,000 AOL users! The 439 MB compressed download (expanded to over 2 GB) includes: … Continue reading

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AOL user search data release scandal: The biggest winner can be Google

AOL is in the process of experimentation with its business models like making a host of paid services free, a strong focus on the Web 2.0 thingy with Jason Calacanis starting a Digg-like clone making over the Netscape homepage, ceasing … Continue reading

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Google to provide search and advertising on MySpace

Google and News Corp struck a deal that in which Google will pay Fox Interactive Media at least 900 million dollars subject to certain web traffic targets are met for providing search and advertisements to a host of websites owned … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 poignancy: Digg-clone Netscape’s traffic dipping constantly

I would have missed it certainly had I not visited Sebastian’s blog where he points out that the Mozilla site mozilla.com gets more hits than the Netscape site netscape.com and that despite the fact that mozilla.com doesn’t have much other … Continue reading

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Gartner study: Web 2.0 to immensely impact on businesses over the next 10 years

Gartner says that the technology that is making the Web 2.0 thingy happen, like AJAX, mashups, location-aware software and sensor mesh networking are among the key emerging techs that will have a significant impact on enterprise within this decade. According … Continue reading

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