Polls Last chance to vote for your favorite Personalized Homepage Our current poll asks which 'personalized homepage' do you use? After a false start, the current results are very interesting. Google Personalized Homepage is most popular with 31%, followed by two of the innovative startups - Pageflakes 21% and Netvibes 20%. Interesting that two of the bigcos are lagging - My Yahoo 6% and Live.com with a paltry… Richard MacManus View comments
News Big Internet Companies (Except Google) Brought Into Line - Thoughts on News Corp/NBC Online Video Deal The big news today is News Corporation and NBC Universal launching what they claim will be "the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled", with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! as the siteÄôs initial distribution partners. It will launch this summer (US). The benefits obviously work both ways - News Corp and NBC get 4… Richard MacManus View comments
News Google's CPA Move: Will Microsoft & Yahoo Have To Buy Their Way Into CPA Game? One of the big pieces of news this week was Google announcing their CPA (Cost-Per-Action) product, or as they're calling it - PPA (Pay-Per-Action). There are good analysis posts about the news from Techcrunch and Microsoft's Don Dodge. It's been expected for some time now that Google will move into CPA, as a lot of people in the industry view CPA… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One The "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James SurowieckiÄôs book of the same name. At its most basic, the term means that two heads are better than one, and that still more heads will yield even better results. The wisdom of crowds is all around us these days. Wikipedia is one of the best known examples of the… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis How To Market Your Web App So after 1 year of fund-raising, planning and development, your shiny new beta web app is finally ready... and now you think it's marketing time. You want to reach thousands of users as quickly as possible. Aha, you think, the cheapest and shortest path is viral marketing - via blogs and social news sites. So you turn to your favorite sites like… Emre Sokullu View comments