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Tucows launches blog to reveal it acquired Kiko: Tucows, a Canadian-based, publicly traded Internet services company, has launched a corporate blog; its first post reveals that it is the lucky eBay buyer of Kiko, the defunct online calendar start-up.Tucows describes its business model:provides Internet services and download libraries through a global distribution network of 6,000 service providers. This...; Tags: Kiko, TUCOWS; Blog posts 2006-09-05
Web 2.0 champions don't champion business plans: It is fitting that YCombinator’s Paul Graham did a feature interview with Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch. The two entrepreneurs have a lot in common: they both are making money by promoting Web 2.0 start-ups lacking business plans.It is ironic that two financially savvy individuals with solid Web 2.0 business plans of...; Tags: MBA, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-09-05
Graham on Web 2.0 investing: VCs are no angels: Paul Graham, YCombinator, has spoken; in a TechCrunch Q & A.Of particular note is Graham’s immediate reaction to the posting of the interview; In a comment at the post, Graham noted what he considers an “inaccuracy” with the TechCrunch headline:Though the intro calls me a VC, that’s not really accurate....; Tags: TechCrunch, Paul Graham, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-09-03
eBay: Web 2.0 failed start-up flea market?: eBay identifies Item number: 120024164593, "Kiko Calendar: website, software, and domain," as sold at a winning bid of $258,100 (for Kiko history see "Eight sure ways to get in TechCrunch Deadpool")For the Kiko start-up team, the sale is a consolation prize; They were hoping for a lucrative, quick sale to...; Tags: Kiko, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-08-27
Web 2.0 amateur entrepreneurs: failure to succeed: In “Web 2.0 on a shoestring: What bubble?” I posit that Web 2.0 is not beset by a financial bubble, but by a rash of amateur entrepreneurship:How can there be a financial bubble if the Web 2.0 community boasts about the near cost-free and risk-free nature of 'starting-up'? As little...; Tags: Web, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-08-27

Web 2.0 on a shoestring: What bubble?: Web 2.0 is not a heady financial bubble ready to burst, it is a hot air hype balloon ready to deflate.The cost-free ease by which 20-something weekend software developers hatch colorful, lightweight, cool apps ready-made for the colorful, lightweight, cool TechCrunch spotlight yields a dizzying parade of often indistinguishable Web...; Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Kiko; Blog posts 2006-08-24
Web 2.0 dreaming: get rich quick, or fail trying: In “Rocketboom: Web 2.0 'success' on $20 a day?” I reflect on society’s desire to count on a “get rich quick” American dream success story, rather than to work towards a “hard earned dollar.”As every American is born with the unalienable right to the ‘pursuit of happiness,’ and we often...; Tags: Kiko, Y Combinator, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-08-19
Graham on Google: Web 2.0 foe: Paul Graham, financial backer of via Y Combinator, and once cheerleader for, recently folded online calendar site Kiko, lays the blame on Google for the failure of his protégé company.At his blog, Graham puts forth a rambling capitulation to Google:What nailed Kiko was Google Calendar…The killer, unforseen by the Kikos...; Tags: Google Inc., Kiko; Blog posts 2006-08-18
Eight sure ways to get in TechCrunch Deadpool: Online calendar start-up Kiko entered the TechCrunch Deadpool Wednesday.Company members Justin Kan, co-founder and Richard White, User Interface Designer, have reflected on the plight of the start-up at their blogs, and at the eBay company sales profile (see Google Writely: Will competitors be wronged? )Using their insights, I have created...; Tags: 30Boxes, Kiko, TechCrunch; Blog posts 2006-08-18
Google Writely: Will competitors be wronged?: TechCrunch heralds the availability of the Google online word processor, Writely, with a warning to other Web-based word processing applications: “Google’s Writely released; will another sector be squashed?”Online ajax-rich word processor Writely began accepting new accounts today after closing registration when the company was acquired by Google in March. A...; Tags: Google Inc., Kiko; Blog posts 2006-08-18

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NetJaxer (exe): NetJaxer is a free and easy way to integrate your favorite Web 2.0 applications like Gmail, TadaList, Digg, Writely, Kiko, Meebo, financial sites, and other Web 2.0 application sites right into Windows. NetJaxer combines a reguarly updated catagorized and searchable web directory of 100's of Web 2.0 application sites that...; Tags: Web, NetJaxer, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-02-02
Web 2.0 start-up strategy: sell-out big: In “Web 2.0 champions don't champion business plans” I noted that Web 2.0 impresario Michael “TechCrunch” Arrington is “making money by promoting Web 2.0 start-ups lacking business plans”:TechCrunch cheerleads daily on behalf of twenty something software developers rapidly prototyping cool Web 2.0 apps. According to TechCrunch, it is:'dedicated to obsessively...; Tags: Web, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-09-14
Web 2.0 amateur entrepreneurs: failure to succeed: Web 2.0 amateur entrepreneurs: failure to succeedRight on DonnaMy thoughts exactly. Kiko was a great product/tool. If the founders knew more about starting a business and overcoming obstacles, and if they had proper motivation, they could have stuck it out much longer and probably sold for much more...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0, Web; Discussion threads 2006-08-28
Google and Web 2.0: win-win or win-lose?: Google makes no secret of its objective to obtain and control every piece of data in the world, including users’ personal data, and of its aim to obtain every business and every individual as a Google paying customer.Google CEO Eric Schmidt, at last months Q2 earnings conference call, reconfirmed:we are...; Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-08-19
Running a business on Web-based software: One premise of Enterprise Web 2.0 is that Web-based software is beginning to credibly encroach on many solution areas that traditional software previously addressed. According to proponents, this maturing method of online software delivery provides more usability, convenience, and value. The flexibility, mobility, and...; Tags: Web, Web 2.0; Blog posts 2006-04-14
NetJaxer - a Web/Desktop integration product... but is it useful?: One of the many new web apps that has been emailed to me recently is one called NetJaxer, which caught my eye because it's a Web/desktop integrator. But it's a few days later and I've still not figured out what use it is. NetJaxer was described to me in the...; Tags: NetJaxer; Blog posts 2006-03-27
Web Office Suite: best of breed products: There's been lots of talk recently about the Web Office - and who is building it. Microsoft released Office Live in beta last week, but it was never going to be a fully functional Office suite like MS Office is. Google has...; Tags: Web, spreadsheet; Blog posts 2006-02-21
The Web-based Office will have its day: I first profiled a Web 2.0 office in early September and since then more web-based office products have surfaced. Peter Rip posted recently that he's now "bumped into an alpha or beta Web-incarnation for every Microsoft desktop product". He says most are AJAX, but some are Flash or Flex-based (both...; Tags: Web, desktop; Blog posts 2005-09-28