Advertising in the blogosphere, and indeed the web at large, is driven by page views. And Google, which also relies on page views and unique visitors to make money, is one of the best traffic generators. However, getting traffic from Google is not simple. AdWords campaigns generate far more traffic...
If you walk into any suburban Starbucks these days, you won't see people's faces, instead you'll see laptops. Moms and dads increasingly work from home; broadband took over the US and wireless is about to do the same. Digital cameras and cell phones have become the eye witnesses of local...
Blogcosm is a new company aiming to build a directory of the blogosphere. From the mundane to the esoteric, the company wants to provide users with a rich data set about any particular blog of interest or the vertical market it is in. I met founder Scott Lawton, an old...
This is a guest post by TK Kenyon, author of the bookRabid. Writing, especially fiction writing, is a tough business to get into and a tougher one to stay in. Generally, neither authors nor publishers make a significant profit until an authorÄôs fifth novel is published. Most of the time,...
According to comScore, social network Hi5 gets around 35 million uniques per month, putting it at a roughly similar size to Facebook. Alexa ranks Facebook 8th in the world -- Hi5 is 10th. However, Facebook gets all the ink. Hi5 barely registers on Google Trends -- especially for news references,...
Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.Web ProductsGoogle Apps Goes After Enterprise Market This week Google announced a partnership with major IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini,...
At the end of June, US cable network Home Box Office launched an ambitious new web video project entitled HBO Voyeur. The concept was easy to grasp, avante garde, and wholly addicting. HBO called the project, which was also broadcast on the HBO on Demand pay cable channel, "a multimedia...
With the attention-grabbing headling Social Networking Goes Global, comScore has released its latest stats on the large social network sites. According to comScore, MySpace is over twice as large as its nearest rival, Facebook. Both Facebook and Bebo have had extraordinary growth over the past year (270% and 172% respectively):These...
I know I recently railed against copycat sites -- I assure you that the irony of this post isn't lost on me. But as they say, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." As I said in my post 3 weeks ago, "if you do feel the need to borrow...
This past year has been a very eventful one in the M&A arena, with many of web 2.0's biggest names being snapped up. A few stand-outs include the likes of YouTube, Photobucket, Feedburner, Last.fm, and StumbleUpon.Yet, there still remains a number of juicy, mouth-watering targets available on the market. This...
This was Facebook Week here at Read/WriteWeb, but I couldn't help but notice how many other blogs wrote posts about Facebook this week as well. It seemed that almost every day there was a Facebook meme on Techmeme. Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that Facebook is the most hyped...
An AP report today states that Nielsen/NetRatings, one of the leading Internet stats services, will "scrap rankings" based on page views and replace it with how long visitors spend at websites. The reason is that online video and technologies such as Ajax "increasingly make page views less meaningful." We've known...
One year ago, the new-look netscape.com launched. What was once the leading portal in the 90's was re-born in June 2006 as a digg clone. Soon after the re-launch, there was an enormous uproar from the existing Netscape.com community - which, it turned out, were fairly 'old school' about what...
Dmitry Shapiro CEO of Veoh invited me to a GoToMeeting webinar today to unveil a serious challenger in the Web TV market. VeohTV Beta, subtly billed as a "Joost Killer", is actually an amazing development in online video viewing. The impetus for the Veoh TV service is characterized by a...
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I wanted to write about this yesterday, but the site was down for a couple of hours and I couldn't get to it. On Wednesday evening, blogger Niall Kennedy officially launched his new venture Startup Search, a directory of the web startup ecosystem -- companies, products, people, and investors.Each company,...
Editor's note: Sramana Mitra is currently running a series on her blog reviewing the photo sharing industry. In this Read/WriteWeb post, she looks at Flickr's offering using her Web 3.0 framework. Before I get to my analysis, here is a quick overview of Flickr's history and its current position. Caterina...
Last week Amazon clamped down on Zlio and told the service that they could no longer promote Amazon products in the United States. Amazon informed the site of the decision with a generic email and so far Zlio has been unable to find out the reason behind it. Zlio President...
Amazonannounced today that they will begin selling DRM-free MP3 music downloads from over 12,000 labels, the largest being EMI. EMI, of course, was the first major record label to sell music without DRM via Apple's iTunes store earlier this month."Our MP3-only strategy means all the music that customers buy on...
Written by Nitin KarandikarThere are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) - each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein the future. These innovations are classified into four types: Query...
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