Archive for November, 2007
Web 2.0 Startups Find Europe Fertile Ground
by Jennifer L. Schenker
Europe may not have the equivalent of a Silicon Valley—a single geographical location where money and connections come together to spawn Internet giants like Google (GOOG) and Facebook. But the decentralized nature of European innovation and entrepreneurialism isn’t proving an impediment when it comes to social networking and other so-called Web [...]
There’s No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere
Nice post from ReadWriteWeb
Written by Alex Iskold / November 28, 2007 / 42 comments
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The 6 Essential Elements Of A Great Web Site Widget
This is a excellent post from Stefan JuhlYou can read the entire article by clicking here
More than a year ago, I made a list of what I considered the 6 essential elements of a website widget in these web 2.0 days. It’s a simple list, but nonetheless I’ve used it multiple times when developing widgets, [...]
Another One Million Ad Model
The Half Million Dollars Web2.0 Video
Imagine breaking apart a video into the smallest parts possible: frames. Now put each frame to sale for a very low price and a couple of minutes video becomes a half million dollars virtual property asset.
Where have we seen this before? The Million Dollar Homepage was selling the smallest [...]
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Acquisitions Compared
The LibraryHouse blog has a nice summary of recent acquisitions (July 2006 through June 2007) by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, roughly color coded by category:
This really ought to be updated for the second half of 07, as the acquisitions pace accelerates. In my recent talks and interviews about Web 2.0 in Germany, [...]
How to Setup a Dating Site
This article tells you how to setup a free dating site and succeed. You’ll learn how to choose the most appropriate niche to target, the dating script to use, how to fill your dating database, how to promote and turn your dating traffic into cash.
The Bare Bones Free Dating Site Model
Promote Dating is aimed [...]
How Do You Make Favicon.ico Files?
Create a file that is 16 x 16 pixels with 16 colors. Then use a program like http://irfanview.com, or http://gimp.org to save it as an ico ( icon ) file with the name “favicon.ico”. You can also visit Favicon UK. They have a free online icon maker that sends your favicon.ico [...]
Algorithm identifies top 100 blogs for news
Being among the first to pick up on Internet news and gossip and rapidly detecting contamination anywhere in a water supply system are similar problems, at least from a computer scientist’s point of view. Both can be solved with a versatile algorithm developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers.
Using a problem-solving method called the Cascades algorithm, [...]
What do you think is Facebook’s long-term strategy?
I’m still trying to understand what is preventing Facebook from becoming just another social fad, especially after reading the whole article on the Google exodus to Facebook. Right now it’s still just a glorified social network slowly trending towards Myspaceism with all the AppCrap (as I call it).
“We want to make Facebook into something of [...]
Moving The Free Line
Entrepreneur’s Journey BlogOctober 7, 2007By Yaro
In the Internet marketing world the concept of the sales funnel is well known. The process of moving customers from free resources, into paid front-end products down to high margin back-end items, has made millions for many Internet entrepreneurs. I covered the entire sales funnel process in [...]
