One of the downsides of the growing importance of web communities is that marketers will attempt to manipulate them to promote their products. That isn’t anything new - people were spamming forums a decade ago, and were probably doing the same since the earliest days of the BBS. ...
Web 2.0 is all about user created content, and a new project, We Are Smarter Than Me, aims to take that concept a step farther. The project will let thousands of community efforts write a book on the topic of “on how the emergence of community and social networks ...
The New York Times ran an article, In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them, that explains how web traffic counts have been inflated when pop up or pop under ads bring up content from the originating site. I.e., the popup is a page from Entrepreneur.com, which ...
We’ve referenced O’Reilly’s rambling description of Web 2.0 in his seminal post, aptly titled “What Is Web 2.0?” This was really more a set of semi-optional characteristics than a definition. Now, O’Reilly is trying to boil it down to a concise statement in his new Web 2.0 Compact Definition: ...
Can Zune catch iPod? is the provocative title of an article at CNN.com. The answer is almost certainly, “no,” at least in the short run. Then again, Microsoft probably doesn’t expect to match iPod’s sales in the immediate future. (more…)
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article by Katherine Rosman, Blackberry Orphans, about parents whose compulsive email habits have left their kids feeling left out. Although these PDA/phone combos have been around for years, their increasing market share is making their intrusions more common: (more…)
You’d have to be crazy to start a new search engine, right? After all, you’d be contending with Google’s armies of PhDs, Yahoo’s site traffic, Microsoft’s billions, and Ask’s media strengths. Apparently there are more than a few technologists and venture capitalists willing to take on the challenge. ...
