Well it's been another great trip to the USA! I've visited San Francisco (for Web 2.0 Expo), Las Vegas for MIX (courtesy of Microsoft New Zealand) and finally a couple of days in Los Angeles (just to see the sights!). Tonight I head back to New Zealand, getting set for...
We have already discussed Yahoo! Travel and TripAdvisor from a Web 3.0 perspective. Continuing our look at the online travel industry we will evaluate Travelocity next.Travelocity, launched in 1996, is an online travel agency, and is owned by Sabre Holdings. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Travelocity is ranked number two among the...
We have been discussing the online travel industry and have covered Yahoo! Travel from a Web 3.0 perspective already. Here we take a look at the offering from online travel community behemoth TripAdvisor.TripAdvisor was founded in February 2000 and is among the worldÄôs largest online travel communities with over 20...
This morning someone emailed me and asked me to send them a headshot for my bio. I went to Google image search and typed in alex iskold. The results that I got were a mix of photos of me, my diagrams, as well as photos and pictures of people and...
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Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb, with the results of our poll at the end.Top Web NewsMuch of the discussion in the blogosphere this week revolved around two pieces of big news. Firstly Google announced that it is beta testing a new CPA (Cost...
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...
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...
Web 2.0 has brought us a flock of APIs and the wonderful new concept of a Web mashup. Thanks to apps like Google Maps, del.icio.us and Flickr, we have started to think a lot about remixing the web. In the figure below is a classic example of a mashup -...
Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are difficult for machines to process. The so called Web 3.0, which is likely to be a pre-cursor of the real...
Adobe recently announced they are to bring out online versions of some of their desktop software suite, including Photoshop, within the next 6 months. The first place we can get a glimpse of these offerings is on the popular photo and video sharing site Photobucket. Since last month, pro users...
At the end of January we wrote about a new service called Imagini Friends, which is a social network that calculates your "VisualDNA" and uses it to find other people that match. At the time, it reminded me of the personality tests you find in magazines like Vogue. Well it...
Earlier this week Emre wrote about declining traffic on Technorati and considered the exit options for this blog vertical search and portal site. The challenge from Google Blogsearch is certainly serious. It is difficult to compete with Google on speed and breadth of the results. But Technorati is more than...
About 2 months ago, HitWise published a report stating that Technorati, the leading blog search company, had for the first time fallen behind Google BlogSearch in traffic. The reason was Google's new strategy of pushing Google BlogSearch on the Google News homepage. A quite unfair competition for Technorati, but this...
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus Windows Vista is finally out and along with that Microsoft seems to have kick-started its Vista-Live joint initiative. This initiative aims to push Microsoft's new web properties in tandem with their dominant Windows operating system - and so become a leader...
Written by Gang Lu and edited by Richard MacManus. China's QQ.com is the world's 9th largest web property and in this post Gang Lu talks with Richard Chang, the Founder and Director of QQ Labs, to find out more about their Web 2.0 plans. Founded by Pony Ma in Shenzhen,...
Written by Sramana Mitra. Note: this is an excerpt from a report written by Sramana Mitra, an entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.Worried your kid is spending too much time in front of the computer? Blame it on websites like CartoonNetwork.com, Disney.go.com, ArchieComics.com and NickJr.com, which are attracting kids...
Compete (a R/WW sponsor) has released data that shows MySpace and Yahoo are the top websites in terms of average time spent on them by users. The data is for US users only. Here are the figures from Compete, expressed as % of total time spent online in the US...
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManusMetacritic, now a property of CNET, has been around since before the last bubble burst. The site has a unique system for aggregating and combining the reviews of movies, books, music and video games. This site is very different from today's popular...
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