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Does the name AdReady ring a bell? No? Well, if all goes as planned, in a few years it will. For everyone.
A Seattle-based startup that is – you guessed it! – all about online advertising, AdReady wants to be big. Really big. Google big. And it intends to reach such a seemingly unattainable target by thinking small and simple.
Okay, maybe we should clarify things here somewhat. We don’t mean to say AdReady wants to become the next Google. AdReady [...]

Update: NetSuite goes live on the NYSE today (Thurs Dec 20) with a raised price of $26 per share.
An IPO’s a-comin’! And the technological debutante having its public market premiere is none other than NetSuite.
Yes, the maker of software-by-subscription for a range of needs, including accounting, CRM (customer relationship management), and e-commerce, NetSuite is celebrating almost 10 years in business by tossing some stocks out to investors the world over – Dutch auction style. The New York Times [...]

Want to have VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) inside your webmail service? How about something to go along with your CRM software? Anywhere else? No problem. Ribbit will deliver on all fronts.
That’s the plan, anyhow. Ribbit, a startup in the business of providing a thoroughly adaptable VoIP platform for any and all Web telephony needs – corporate- or consumer-centric – has the desire to become a primary consultant for businesses big and small, as well as the pubic [...]

Over the weekend, Om Malik (of GigaOM fame) laid bare some information that most any avid gamer might enjoy. He spoke of a brief encounter with Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) at a holiday party, at which point he learned of the imminent public release of Rupture, a startup more than a year in the making.
A startup whose purpose is to connect “game fiends in a social sort of way.”
Which got me thinking. And not about Rupture, actually. [...]

The evolutionary gem known as the blog has come a long way since its official origin back in the mid ‘90s. Jorn Barger, dubbed the designer of the term “weblog” (and it’s definition), claims to have started the trend – now a phenomenon of global proportions – by assembling a daily catalogue of links amassed from “travels across the Web.” How interesting, then, it is to find that, some 10 years since its basic introduction, the core of the concept [...]

The ad market research specialist eMarketer let loose Friday with a few numbers we thought we’d run by you. They pertain to businesses which populate the social networking space, and offer a general estimation of what to expect (for the short term) as far as future revenue for the sub-industry as a whole.
According to the firm’s reading of the next three to four years, the supply of social networks will likely draw in ad revenue somewhere in the area [...]

This recurring subject of the Windows-Internet Explorer bundle’s anti-competitive behavior, as was recently reported once more by the BBC, is, I must say, a very tired one.
Yes, it is true that Microsoft packages its Internet browser with its operating systems sold both off the shelf and as partially-subsidized software for most new PCs. And no, that is not the ideal scenario other software manufacturers – Mozilla and Opera, to name just a couple – favor. They would, generally [...]

The Webby Awards, a celebratory symposium of websites (and their creators) voted by way of a public poll to be the best in their respective categories, is an annual event going into its 12th installation next year. And we would be remiss not to mention to our readers that today, November 14th, 2007, is the deadline for submissions.
So, you know, if your ego’s extra large and you feel deserving of a nifty trophy for all the hard word you’ve [...]

In late November, we shared with you some information about Classmates.com concerning the company’s then-stated intentions to be the first social Web construct to file an IPO.
Well, you can forget everything we said back then, ‘cause…uh…they changed their minds. Yes, apparently they’re not going through with it. We know, we know, quite a surprise. It would’ve been a pretty momentous spectacle, eh? Ah well, the buzz was fun while it lasted.
Wait, you’re thinking. What buzz? And “momentous spectacle?” Come [...]