Product Reviews Participate in Social Media, Get Money for College CollegeNET is a new, education-based social network where participation can lead to more tangible results than a large friends list or a lot of wall posts. Instead, the students participating online on CollegeNET can receive something a bit more rewarding: financial aid towards a college education in the form of scholarships. To receive one of… Sarah Perez View comments
Features Mainstream Web Watch: NBA.com Welcome to a new series on ReadWebWeb, which we're calling 'Mainstream Web Watch'. Over the coming weeks I will be exploring a whole range of websites for RWW - from sports sites, to grocery store sites, to government websites, to banking sites, and much more. We're starting with a sports website that has probably peaked in popularity just this… Social Richard MacManus View comments
International China Web Boom: .CN Now More Popular than .Net China's top-level domain has now surpassed .net as the web's third most popular top-level and second most popular country-specific domain, according to a study by VeriSign says the Associated Press. VeriSign said that registrations of .cn domains had surged 23% in the first quarter of this year, and tripled year-over-year. China's domain boom… Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn't been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn't change nearly as much as everyone expected it to. Pre-CEO Jerry Yang told then-Business 2.0 writer Erick Schonfeld six months after the deal "I look at Flickr with envy, it feels like where the Web is… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Info Overload: What Can We Do? This is post #2 of a 2-part post on today's information overload problem and how we can cope. Please read part 1 here. The information overload problem has reached a critical point. Workers drowning in their inboxes and jumping from task to task have now cost the nation $650 billion in lost productivity. A research group attempting to… Sarah Perez View comments