Business Acquisitions 101 To all those Web 2.0 companies looking to get acquired by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! or eBay, Don Dodge has handily compiled a list of tips. Don works on the Microsoft Emerging Business Team. In his latest post he starts by noting Microsoft's "rich tradition of acquisitions". He points to a list of Microsoft investments and acquisitions over the… Richard MacManus View comments
Business Mash-ups Best Practice and Business Models The necessary components of a mash-up according to the panelists are AJAX or a similar client-side technology, APIs in the backend (or RSS and/or scraping if need be - although some people argue scraping isn't truly Web 2.0), and a lot of work on the UI and data sets by the developer(s). Paul Rademacher mentioned there is still a lot of work to… Richard MacManus View comments
Yahoo Yahoo! starts rolling out user-generated content to the masses Yahoo! announced two major products this week: a podcasting service and then blog search integrated with Yahoo! News Search. Both of these products are outputs of Yahoo!'s strategy to introduce more user-generated content to their media offerings, as outlined by their CEO Terry Semel at the Web 2.0 Conference. Some people have criticised the… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Web 2.0 Workgroup During my time in Silicon Valley I've been staying in the TechCrunch house with Michael Arrington and Frederico Oliveira (Gabe Rivera of memeorandum fame is also here currently). Mike, Fred and I all blog on the topic of Web 2.0 - so we thought why not create a Web 2.0 network. As you do. It's called Web 2.0 Workgroup. Our blogs are all… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 3-9 October 2005 This week: Web 2.0 Conference Special sponsored by: The past week has been an amazing one for me. My first trip to America and I've met so many people that I'd previously only known via the Web (blogs, email, etc). The Web 2.0 Conference was held in San Francisco from Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th October. It was a hive of energy and… Richard MacManus View comments