Archive for September, 2006
E-Commerce 2.0
(AJAXworld) With all the noise the Web 2.0 revolutionaries are making, it’s easy to ignore another-this time velvet-revolution. E-commerce 2.0 is coming into maturity and getting ready to relieve its now 10+ year old predecessor. It’s about time. More…
30 Sep
Badges for the Web 2.0 bust
(CNet) Parodies of Web 2.0 hype sometimes seem almost as prevalent as the companies themselves. In this space alone, we have seen automatic logo generators, cliche color palettes and even quiz that compares Web 2.0 companies with “Star Wars” characters, among others. Yet there’s still no end to ideas that skewer the expanding bubble. More…
30 Sep
eBay My World: beware Web 2.0 community creep
In “New eBay Wiki aims to harvest collective knowledge of the 193 million eBay community” and “eBay seeks ’social shopping’ dollars with Web 2.0 forays” last June, I discussed eBay’s embrace of the social Web: eBay will be introducing eBay Blogs and an eBay Community Wiki at its eBay Live conference in Las Vegas next week…eBay Live sessions, “It’s Not About Me, It’s eBay Blogs!” More…
30 Sep
Shutterfly Takes Nasdaq Flight
(Red Herring) Shutterfly drifted upward in its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Friday, with shares of the Internet photo site gaining 10 percent above their offering price in early trading, rising $1.55 to $16.55. More…
29 Sep
Web 2.0’s hot spots help users organize mushrooming media
(Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) Flickr founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake made the cover of Newsweek for their popular photo-sharing site. Digg founder Kevin Rose made the cover of BusinessWeek after his news-ranking site took off. Online video hub YouTube is ubiquitous, while networking giants MySpace and Facebook are in everyone’s faces. More…
29 Sep
