Web 3.0 is All About Rank and Recommendation
We had a real-life web-lebrity in the Guardian's offices last week: Martin Stiksel, one third of the brains behind the music recommendation site Last.fm.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/06/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization?
On the UK's Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. "If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/05/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

A Battle of the Moguls Over IAC
A battle royal shaping up between Barry Diller and John C. Malone over IAC/Interactive is not about their personal differences, despite the juicy material this provides.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Microsoft-Yahoo Faces an Approval Gauntlet
U.S. and EU authorities will inspect the proposed acquisition, but thanks to Google's dominance, the merger should get a green light.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Industry Standard Relaunches — As A Predictions Market
After much suspense, media conglomerate IDG has relaunched its brand Industry Standard. This time, Industry Standard is a site that lets...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/04/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch
Leading the way [in terrible end-of-year news from the newspaper industry] was The New York Times Company, where total [quarterly] revenues fell 1.7% to $865.8 million...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/03/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo's Joyful, Difficult Journey
The beloved Internet icon's buoyant beginning gave way to missed acquisitions, an inferior understanding of the Web's evolution, and Google's shadow.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/03/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google’s Marissa Mayer: Social Search is The Future
At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google’s leading VP in search, said social search hasn’t shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good ...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

'Facebook Fatigue' Kicks In As People Tire of Social Networks
Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad. Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Cell Phone Directory Rings Alarm Bells
An online directory that claims to provide 90 million mobile telephone numbers is raising concerns among cell phone users and privacy advocates about unwanted...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

How Many Facebook Users Actually Read the Wall Street Journal?
The fact that the WSJ and Facebook have just partnered on a new initiative to let Facebook users share their favorite news stories, surely demonstrates one of...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amazon Profit More Than Doubles
Amazon.com Inc reported on Wednesday a huge rise in quarterly net profit, boosted by a 42 percent rise in revenue during its important holiday season.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Beyond Vertical Search to Business Networks
Vertical Search is one of those confusing terms that means many different things, depending on where you are coming from. To most RWW readers, Vertical Search...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo to Cut 1,000 Jobs
Online search engine operator Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit declined a bit more than 23 percent as higher operating expenses overshadowed...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom
One of the oldest rivals to the community news site Digg is pointing to recent unrest at the site as evidence that the social news model is flawed.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Liberty Media Moves to Oust Diller
Liberty Media Corp.'s John Malone, a longtime business partner of Barry Diller, took action Monday to oust Diller from the board of the IAC/InterActiveCorp Internet conglomerate.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently
VideoEgg has announced that its ad network for Facebook applications – eggnetwork – has pulled in around $1.5 million in ad revenue over the past five months.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo Encounters a Fork in The Road
When Yahoo reports year-end results on Tuesday, financial analysts may be more interested in what the Internet giant does not say: What are its long-term plans...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/28/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

It's Come to This: Hot or Not for Websites
Quite frankly I'm shocked it has taken this long for someone to come out with this - Hot or Not for websites. If Digg/Propeller/Reddit/etc is a little too heady for...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/28/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Meta 2008 Web Trends
The excellent Trendsspotting blog has compiled a meta list of 2008 Web trends, by selecting "a group of 10 web/tech influencers suggesting their trends forecast for 2008.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/28/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Lee Siegel on the Internet's Destructive Side
Where most people see the Internet as an essential part of modern life, providing convenience, access to friends and speedy information, essayist Lee Siegel sees...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/27/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

How Last.fm Will Create "Communities Around Content"
Earlier this week we reported that leading online music service Last.fm, owned by CBS, had gotten major labels on board for its new streaming music services.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/27/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Would You Pay $1 For A Feed?
Before you read this article, I'd ask that you ignore how things are today, I want you to free your mind of the current model so you can fully absorb what I am going to suggest.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/26/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Reader Shows the Published Date
Besides a new favicon and a confirmation dialog displayed when you mark all the posts as read, Google Reader now shows the published date of a post in a tooltip.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/26/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Shy Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/26/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

9 Things You Didn't Know About Google
Sure, the talent is amazing, the pay is great and the cafeteria is legendary. But what about the pranks and Google air? Photographs by Darcy Padilla/Redux for Fortune.com.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

WSJ.com to Retain Subscription Component
The Wall Street Journal's Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said yesterday.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

If “Real Journalism” Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In?
The chart to the right, which shows the stock price of the New York Times Company over the last five years, is somewhat representative of the state of print journalism...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt?
With Twitter down right now, I’m resisting the urge to join the fallback blogosphere backchannel chatroom of FriendFeed and actually get more productive this evening.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Health Login Page
Want to get a first live glimpse of Google Health, which Google’s Marissa Mayer announced will be rolled out in early 2008? Point your browser to:
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Rethinking The Local Paper
This is my local newspaper, called The Villager. If you live in Greenwich Village, NYC, you probably read The Villager. But there are several problems with The Villager...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Digg: New Algorithm Changes
Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we’ve been making this week. As we’ve talked about in the past, Digg’s promotional algorithm...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Life After Google, With Millions
What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams?
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo Layoffs For Real—But What’s the Real Number?
Last Friday, when I reported that a small team of about 30 people at Yahoo had lost their jobs, I hinted that “more substantial layoffs are around the corner.”
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Pownce From Possible Deadpool To Here For The Long-Term
Pownce will be opening its doors to the public tomorrow and will launch some new features says Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch who got a sneak peak.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Humans Interupting Algorithms: Wales v. Calacanis
A large group of international tech rock stars are at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and friend of RWW Martin Källström of pre-launch search...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight
Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years. The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

From MySpace to YourSpace
Two years ago, Chris DeWolfe, the co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, was talking about international expansion with Rupert Murdoch...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Social Networks, from The 80s to The 00s
As Facebook enjoys its moment in the sun, we should take a moment to step back and look at the history of computers and social communication.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been successfully...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

2007 Crunchies: The Winners
A great evening was had by all tonight as some of the leading startups gathered for the first annual Crunchies, a joint production between Read/Write Web, VentureBeat...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data
Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook Faces Privacy Questions
Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Digg's Secret Editors
Why do some stories abruptly disappear from Digg? Duncan Riley of TechCrunch suspects "super users." But there's a much simpler explanation: Digg's ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Salesforce.com To Offer DaaS Service, New Pricing Model
CRM and SaaS provider Salesforce.com have announced that there Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture (our review here) is to now offer...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook Asked to Pull Scrabulous
Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble. The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

iGoogle Themes Directory Launched
In October last year, I asked whether we should expect to see an iGoogle Themes Directory Coming Soon. Today, Peter Dawson noticed that the Themes Directory ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Another Media Exec Leaves Yahoo
As Yahoo narrows its focus on a few key priorities, it’s not surprising to see those whose projects fall outside those areas leave the company.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers
Zynga Game Network, is one of a new cluster of Internet ventures capitalizing on the rapidly growing social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/15/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs