Posts Tagged with ‘cnet’

Whether you question the viability of Facebook “apps” for the long run (I am) or really are completely gung-ho from concept to end product (I’m not), it doesn’t change the fact that some in The Valley are feeling quite bullish when it comes to stuff built with APIs proffered by Zuckerberg & Co.
By some, I mean the folks at the very public venture capital firm Bay Partners. As it turns out, they’ve gone ahead and established an annex fund [...]

Me.dium has just been selected as one of the finalists for the CNET Webware TOP 100 Awards, and Profy could not be happier for them. Me.dium is situated in the Community category with several other excellent finalists to be voted on by YOU from May 23rd through June 11th at the Webware site.
Me.dium, as most of you know, is one of the most innovative startups of this year and we have probably covered their progress as extensively as anyone. The folks [...]

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 - [...]

The modus operandi for Web 2.0 sites to date has been to grow the site big enough to have it snapped up by a bigger fish. Unlike the "Web 1.0" move which was to go public as fast as you could without being purchased, Web 2.0 sites seem to be treading water while waiting for a Google or Yahoo! offer.
The real question is why. What has the big change been? Michael Kanellos quotes Opus Capital partner Ken Elefant [...]

Up until this week, Bambi Francisco was a technology columnist for MarketWatch. She isn't there any longer, because of several articles calling her out as having a conflict of interest.
While Bambi was at MarketWatch, she started a small company in her free time called Vator.tv, a video-sharing site where entrepreneurial hopefuls can submit video pitches about their ideas that will hopefully grab the attention of VCs. Vator.tv was started with the blessing of her boss, David Calloway, Editor-in-Chief, [...]

It is usually much easier to choose exactly what you need when available offers are supported by recommendations of friends or even strangers. This approach is growing widely popular online - we are encouraged to rate, recommend, comment and review virtually everything. The recently launched RatePoint enables you to rate anything - websites, services, products, solutions - at least everything with a URL.
Caroline McCarthy from Webware was the first to mention similarities between the newly launched social recommendations website [...]

"During a recent interview with Podtech's Maryam Scoble, Mary Jo Foley revealed that ZDNet has a payment scheme in place that rewards its bloggers based on the number of clicks their posts get. Foley recently left Ziff Davis to become a free agent. Her primary gig involves writing a well-read blog on Microsoft for ZDNet, which CNET owns. Foley says she likes the pay-for-performance model because "It rewards people… who do a lot of work to make sure that their [...]