web Social Map Roll-up: Will Platial + Frappr Be Strong Enough to Survive? Portland social mapping startup Platial has acquired old-school favorite Frapper, another social mapping service, it was announced today. If the announcement had been made yesterday it would have warranted inclusion in Om Malik's post Startups Should Team Up to Grow. Is this a case of small companies merging for the sake of survival in the face… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Web 2.0 Summit 2007 Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mary Meeker and Internet Trends One of my favorite parts of the Web 2.0 conferences run by O'Reilly/CMP is the 15 minute quickfire presentation done every year by Mary Meeker. There is always a wealth of fascinating data about Web trends and products, which Meeker hits you with at a mllion miles an hour. Luckily in this case her presentation was up on the Morgan Stanley website… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Adobe Preparing Full Shift to Web Apps At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said that the company is working toward shifting all of their apps online, but that it would probably take about 10 years for a complete shift. While the web as the computing platform of the future is currently a popular idea, and while prognostication 10 years out is rarely a… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Is China Attacking US Search Engines? Reports are flying all over the blogosphere today about "China blocking" more US based websites, including search engines, and in some cases redirecting traffic in China to Chinese search engines instead of Google and Yahoo. The truth of the matter is probably not nearly so simple. As I understand it it's almost never as simple as "China is… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News MySpace Evolves - Developer Platform Details, Partnerships, Growth Figures This evening News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, and MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe, were the featured speakers at the Web 2.0 Summit. It is the two year anniversary of the News Corp acquisition of MySpace, so there was some discussion on the growth of MySpace and how it is evolving. The pair also discussed, in a roundabout way… Richard MacManus View comments