Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrap-up, 17-21 July 2006 Long-time readers of Read/WriteWeb may recall that I used to do a weekly summary of the top stories of the week, called the Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up. It ran all through 2005 and for a long time was the most popular feature on R/WW. I decided to put it to one side at the start of 2006, but now may be a good time to resurrect it... Netscape's offer… Richard MacManus View comments
Search Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series of posts is adapted from Ebrahim's research material in developing Qube. [update Part 2 is here] Let's start be defining what we mean by "search 2.0… Ebrahim Ezzy View comments
New Media Calacanis offers to buy out digg users Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month: "We will pay you $1,000 a month for your "social bookmarking" rights. Put in at least 150 stories a month and we'll give you $12,000 a year. (note: most of these folks put in 250-400 stories a… Richard MacManus View comments
Advertising Internet advertising companies hot in 2006 The June 2006 edition of Business 2.0 magazine lists the 100 fastest-growing tech companies of 2006. One trend that has emerged is that online advertising has replaced retailing as the Web sector that is most in demand. While in 2005 eBay was ranked 14 and there were two other retail companies in the top 20, this year eBay is ranked 92 and its… Richard MacManus View comments
Business Google, MS, Y!, Ask: 20%+ revenue from toolbars? Markus Frind is one of the more disruptive (and therefore interesting) bloggers to emerge this year. He's the guy who burst onto the scene with claims that he's making $10,000 per day off his online dating site PlentyOfFish.com. I actually met Markus in person last month at the Supernova conference and I can confirm he's a very smart cookie (and… Richard MacManus View comments