Posts Tagged with ‘business’

Revyr is a company review service where anyone can post data about companies anonymously. The startup is in private beta testing and I tested some of its elements today. Revyr is patterned after product review sites but the reviews come from the public at large, employees and former employees. Anyone can post a review on a company (without fear of discovery) by filling in various text and form fields. This user submitted data is collected to provide feedback for those [...]

When virtual worlds – Second Life, in particular – first went online, there was considerable buzz built around the newly established market. Their dimensions were fresh with intrigue and interesting possibilities, and, well, lots of people ran with those ideas. In the months following its launch, Second Life took off in a big way. Later, however, after all the bubble wrap was removed and all users took to their own personal roles, so to speak, things kind of grew stagnant. [...]

I am sure that most of you are already aware of how easy it is to embed a YouTube video on your blog or website. All you have to do is copy the code displayed in the "embed" box, next to the video. After you paste that into your website, you are good to go.
Now, Google is planning to take that same embedding technology a step further and integrate it with their Google Maps service. Today, according to Dan Warne [...]

Word in the blogosphere has it that LinkedIn may follow in Facebook’s footsteps and provide APIs to developers. Clearly such a move would simply be an attempt to parallel Facebook’s growth (percentage-wise, of course).
But would opening up be a good thing for LinkedIn, particularly as it is the preeminent network on the Web catering to “the business crowd?” Businesspeople are after all less accepting of adventurous and experimentalist initiatives. But if LinkedIn takes similar pains to vet third party [...]

Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel announced he is stepping down and that Co-founder Jerry Yang will be assuming the every day duties of chief executive. Yahoo! has faced some tough times over the last couple of years and the company's investors have become increasingly restless as Yahoo!'s growth has continued to slow. Shares of Yahoo! have faltered this year from $43 a share to less than $30. Yahoo!'s battle with Google over a share in the market has not been a [...]

Coghead is another one of those exhibitors at the Web 2.0 Expo that was impressive but did not perhaps receive its just due from the blogosphere. Coghead is a revolutionary tool for business people to create and deliver Web based applications. The service targets the need for flexible and quick Web based business solutions.
Coghead boasts over 17,000 registered developers already, and series B funding totally $8 million has just been secured this month. Users rely on a completely Web based - [...]

Yahoo! China just launched a new blogging and networking aspect in their continued efforts to diversify. The effort, termed "Yahoo Space" includes blogging, networking, a photo gallery and other interactive services.
In actuality Yahoo! has always been more diverse that Google, but got passed because of several factors including Google's superior search and raking capability back when. Since then Yahoo! has been incrementally integrating services to add utility for their users. As my colleague Paul Glazowski pointed out in a great [...]

When poking around MyBlogLog one day, I came across a social networking site that's been around since late 2005, yet seems to be generating some new buzz: Zaadz.
Zaadz is a comprehensive community site with over 48,000 members that's named the Dutch word for seed. Trying to boil down the driving force behind the site into a few sentences is nearly impossible; the front page text is nearly a page in itself. Here's what I do know: Zaadz is a modern [...]