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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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Google buyouts are BAD business
- Will the real Google PLEASE stand-up! Google CEO Eric Schmidt and company are saying some wild and “crazy” things, literally.I heard Schmidt tell Wall Street last month that it is still “unclear” how revenue will be generated from its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube while nevertheless expressing supreme confidence...
- Tags: YouTube, Venture Capital, VC, Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Google: Is the Web 2.0 honeymoon over?
- On Malik declared the end of Web 2.0 innocence last week. Many months ago, I warned that innocence is not an option in the Googlefied Web 2.0 world. (see Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!)What about Web 2.0 start-ups themselves?Do they believe the Google MyMaps enhancement means they will...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Google, Business Models, Google Software Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!
- The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, TV, Television, ROI, Profits, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time
- Is Google celebrating the "death" of Microsoft?Paul Graham believes so, proclaiming Microsoft to be rich but dead.But are Eric Schmidt and company really “not afraid of Microsoft anymore”? Hardly. Google does indeed fear Microsoft, big time, and rightly so.Below are just a few billion dollar reasons why, in rebuttal to...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Mobile, Microsoft, Metrics, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- Google and Web 2.0: Alive and kicking!
- Is Web 2.0 over? I asked last April Fool’s weekend.Today, Om Malik declares the end of Web 2.0 innocence, underscoring Google’s MyMaps launch as a tipping point.Malik: "The Web 2.0 story so far has been about taking APIs, mashups, low cost infrastructure and building applications that are then offered to...
- Tags: Metrics, Google, Web 2.0, Search Advertising, Profits, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?
- Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Google IS a public service, sometimes
- To start the Google New Year, I asked rhetorically “Is Google a public service?,” by juxtaposing Google’s public facing mission statement with that of The Library of Congress.For big profit Google’s mission statement is a seemingly public serving one, “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Does Google SEO success 'suck'?
- Rich Skrenta has a love-hate relationship with Google, and the traffic it drives to the company he leads, Topix.Skrenta decried to the Wall Street Journal just weeks ago that as Topix is 45% dependent upon Google for its visitors, moves by the number one search engine can yield “catastrophic” impacts...
- Tags: Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Local, Internet Data, Google, Business Models, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Welcome Google to your Digital Home!
- Google wants you in its Cloud today. Tomorrow, make way for Google in your Digital Home!LG, “Life’s Good,” so touts LG Electronics, and it will undoubtedly be even better when things get Googley, in the LG + G for Google home of the future!Think “Ten Commandments” Google is satisfied with...
- Tags: Web 2.0, TV, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
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