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ZDNet Author Biography: A former ZDNet blogger, Donna Bogatin is the founder of online directional media properties VIPOffers.com and UrbanSavings.com. In addition to her own ventures, Donna has been advising companies on Web-based business development since 1997, when she created and led an "Internet For Entrepreneurs" workshop for the Small Business Administration. As...; more about Donna Bogatin »

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Who needs Facebook? Students fight back: YES, there is rain on the Facebook parade, despite Mark Zuckerberg & Company's best efforts today to create, cajole and control public and popular opinion via a splashy and flashy multi-media show from the heart of San Francisco pre-designed to crown Facebook the Web's star from here on in.Fresh faced Zuckerberg...; Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-24
Silicon Valley move over? NYC bullish on next Internet wave: Insider Flash! Web 2.0 "prediction" heard today on the "street," the media capital of the world's streets, that is:Newspapers will be the largest video owners online, NOT broadcasters. What's more, when broadcast voice is on text, a new market will erupt.Who says and why?Sean Morgan, a serial Internet entrepreneur and...; Tags: Business Models, Google, VC, Venture Capital, Wall Street, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-23
MySpace to Facebook: WE have the friends, and money: Is Facebook waging the wrong battles?Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers? Mark Zuckerberg and company have been floating in conjunction with touted new "game changing" Facebook services in the works.HOW ABOUT MYSPACE?Despite Zuckerberg's incredulous insistence that MySpace is not Facebook's competitive peer, MySpace does indeed reign supreme in the social...; Tags: Facebook, Metrics, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-22
Can Web 2.0 really save the planet?: Chad Hurley, the worldwide Web 2.0 video king, hailed before the U.S. Congress last week that his YouTube “community” is helping “children in Africa.” BUT, can the entire Web 2.0 community save the WHOLE planet?Business Objects, a self-described “pioneer in business intelligence since the dawn of the category,” believes...; Tags: Enterprise, Social Capital, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-15
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google: All Aboard!: Information Architects New Years gift to the world was: Web Trend Map 2007!What is it?It shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected, using the Tokyo Metro map. It’s totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at. Fun indeed. But what is...; Tags: Culture, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0, Yahoo; Blog posts 2007-05-14

Can video make reading sexy? CBS to launch book channel online: “Video killed the radio star”? So sings The Buggles.CBS Corporation’s Simon & Schuster, however, is singing the praises of video to make books stars and is creating a new “book-centric” Internet video channel aimed at doing just that: BookVideos.tv!Slated for a June launch, BookVideos.tv will “humanize authors,” Sue Fleming, Vice...; Tags: Culture, Marketing, The Real Deal, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-05-10
Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!: If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...; Tags: Enterprise, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-05-09
Web 2.0: What does Pew really know?: Matthew Ingram hails:"The latest Pew study into how people use the Interweb. These studies are useful in part because the Pew Internet & American Life Project does such a thorough job with them — you know they weren’t cooked up by marketing types to sell more banner ads."Perhaps not, but...; Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Media, Metrics; Blog posts 2007-05-08
MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!: News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...; Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google; Blog posts 2007-05-08
Big, BAD contextual Web: Do you want journalism with your ads?: OnHollywood hosted industry insiders to debate "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0" this morning in Los Angeles.Didn’t make it to LA? No problem, “industry insider” Web 2.0 Techmeme to the rescue, for NOT SO "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0.”What is Techmeme? Gabe Rivera:At this moment, the next big story in technology...; Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Google, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-05-02
Web 2.0 Social Media: Voyeurs rule, not amateurs!: In my “Social Freeloaders” User Generated Content UGC series last year. I created a Web 2.0: Top five social risks list to evaluate the sustainability, or not, of UGC based models. In asking Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it? last June, I used...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Google, Amateur Content; Blog posts 2007-04-28
Google user data cloud: Do you trust it?: Google takes user data and privacy very seriously, it intones repeatedly. Why then, does it supposedly not know where its users’ data is in its massively encroaching world wide cloud? In Google Gmail: Privacy Policy vs. Help Center last December, I dissected Google’s non-position on what happens when...; Tags: Web 2.0, Privacy, Google Software Applications, Google; Blog posts 2007-04-28
Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone: Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...; Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs; Blog posts 2007-04-26
HP buys into SaaS with Logoworks acquisition: Going forward, you should expect to continue to see us build upon our strengths in our core printer business and extend our brand, technology leadership, and price performance advantage into adjacent markets and capture further page growth, said Mark Hurd, HP CEO, at the company’s F1 Q’07 earnings call in...; Tags: Enterprise, Web 2.0, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-04-25
HP to Google, Intuit: It's OUR small business cloud, too!: Move over Google and Intuit, make room for HP in the small business cloud! HP has gained direct access to small businesses that are already doing business in the cloud to help them run their businesses: HP is acquiring Logoworks, a Web-based design service company for small businesses.Intuit and...; Tags: Web 2.0, Marketing, Google, ecommerce, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-04-24
Web 2.0: Is O'Reilly's vision a keeper? Amazon vs. Alexaholic: Tim O’Reilly graciously bestowed a “Blogger’s Code of Conduct” upon the blogosphere earlier this month. In 2004, he christened “Web 2.0” for the world. Tim O’Reilly has helped publish many a tech how-to manual. But, has he really written the definitive book on Web 2.0? O’Reilly Media touts...; Tags: ecommerce, Business Models, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Watch out Google? Yellow Pages meets Del.icio.us in YellowBot: Can Google win at Local? That is the $39 billion advertising question. Just as Google’s AdWords fueled billions can readily drive a multi-billion dollar takeover of the online display advertising market, in other words a DoubleClick buyout, Google’s spare cash can easily subsidize free local directory assistance service, in...; Tags: Social Web, Social Networking, Advertising, Yellow Pages, Web 2.0, Social Software, Social Media, Marketing, Local, Google, Culture; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Web 2.0 copycats: Google stumbles, MySpace digs: Yahoo checked out Google’s ecommerce play Tuesday, Google stumbled upon a roll of the dice Web site recommendation tool yesterday and MySpace digs social news aggregation and voting today. Where is the innovation? Is Web 2.0 one big copycat playground now?What is MySpace News? News Corp. does not even...; Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, MySpace, Google, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-04-19
Who needs Brightcove? VMIX video gets sexy: Creative is sexy these days, for everyone. So proclaims VMIX.Dubbed the “Free video sharing and hosting community,” VMIX sounds like the latest, but certainly not last, valiant attempt to unseat Google’s almighty YouTube. VMIX, however, has set its competitive sights on a different online video leader, Brightcove. How does...; Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, VC, Venture Capital, Google, Business Models; Blog posts 2007-04-18
Google Web 2.0 redux: Eric Schmidt meets John Battelle, again: What a difference five months and Web 2.0 Expo versus Web 2.0 Summit makes? NO. The John Battelle – Eric Schmidt repartee presents more like a replay than a rematch.Schmidt on we can all get along in the cloud, circa November 6, 2006: On the subject of office suites,...; Tags: Web 2.0, Google Apps, Google, Google Software Applications; Blog posts 2007-04-17