Scouting Micro Social Networks

"Social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, have reinvented the way we communicate with each other, gather information and determine "friend" status. In the last three years, the major social networks have taken their place among the top Internet destinations, displacing...

Persistent Thread: The Economics of Information Today

Tom Curley, CEO of AP, has understood that news content is valuable but that it must "float" and not be mired in a single medium nor a single location. I say, "micropayments." What Tom Curley says: "Where I’m coming from is that we must go forward with Web 2.0—all aspects...

When Bad Portals Happen To Good Organizations

"As we start this new year, people in the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and WebSphere Portal worlds are going to be hearing a lot about composite applications and how Domino will be able to offer up information for use in WebSphere Portal interfaces. But even if people have spent a...

The decline and fall of email

Valleywag shows the skeptics who the real winners and losers are with Facebook's emerging dominance:"When Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, we told you the real losers were AOL and Yahoo, because they depend on email usage to drive traffic through their portals....

You thought email was so pre-Twitter...

Why do I use Google so often? The email. It is easy and big (no mail box is full issues) and so searchable. Turns out the highly successful Cyworld neglected email in its original appearance. Now the giant cyberworld portal, home of the mini homepy, is going to roll out email...

"What if online portals had nothing but 'digital fish wrap'?" - Huh?

"What to do? Here's my proposal: Newspapers and wire services need to figure out a way, without running afoul of antitrust laws, to agree to embargo their news content from the free Internet for a brief period -- say, 24 hours -- after it is made available to paying...

Video, social networks to surge in '07

"Companies like Inktomi moved into the caching business, while others -- , Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, etc. --quickly morphed into portals or were buried in other entities. The ad dollars would flow abundantly to portals, and transaction fees to online retailers, so most...

Huge profits for Web portals

"China's major Internet portals, including Sohu, Sina and Tom, have registered huge profits in the last month from advertising revenues during the World Cup."