Posts Tagged with ‘ebay’

Back in autumn of ’05, eBay purchased Skype, the very successful venture by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, two of the most prominent names in tech industry. Why the company did so is still a question which has yet to be fully answered. But okay. They had the cash. They did the deal. An odd deal, for sure, but nonetheless, a deal already done.
Now, however, eBay appears to be scouting another species it hasn't been known to commiserate with. The [...]

One of the most innovative and interesting startups from the Web 2.0 Expo is a comprehensive development environment called Bungee Connect from Bungee Labs. This on-demand web development tool allows for the building and deployment of a large number of APIs onto the Internet. The scope of this service is vast, but perhaps the most attractive aspect of the utility is that Web developers actually only pay for the service once their application is making money.
Essentially, Bungee Connect enables [...]

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 [...]

The auction giant eBay has come a long way from its fledging days as a trading space for the most sentimental and unique of trinkets. More than a decade after its less-than-global premiere, the company now spans across international waters and is open to auctions and buy-to-own-now listings for the small and sentimental to the old and highly valued to the very big – cars, boats, and estates.
But the venue, though greatly expanded in size since its dimensions as [...]

Skype’s not going anywhere. The discussion over the future of VoIP and free phone calls can be had, and we can all make our own predictions over the direction the wind will blow in the future, but along with the technology, the biggest proponents of voice-over-IP are here to stay.
Not only am I sure of it, the folks at world’s largest provider of free VoIP software are betting the same rosy fate as well, and are hard at work planning [...]

Here's an idea that's so obvious I should probably kick myself for not thinking of it. Steve Poland, Founder/CEO of Vested Ventures as well as as a contributing writer for TechCrunch, has put edgeio Marketplaces (which we previously profiled) to a very meta use: replacing eBay as the place to go when you want to sell your Web 2.0 company.
Web 2.0 for Sale provides a more centralized location for selling domain names, code, any other related [...]

European Internet start-up Webjam raises $2 million in first-round funding.
Webjam, a London startup founded by Yahoo! veterans, has just received their first round funding of about $2 million for further product development. We received the press release from Webjam Ltd. announcing this latest news about the versatile online community.
Webjam has been in Beta testing since its inception back in November of last year and has been covered by us then. This latest news prompted me to join the site to [...]

With the explosion in social networking comes a risk. The more you put out there online about yourself, the more potential there is for risk to your privacy and personal reputation. From blog comments to revenge ratings to angry retaliatory comments, almost anything can end up visible in a Google search. Employers are already using Google to find out additional information about prospective employees, and recent news about the law school admissions forum AutoAdmit revealed that Internet harassment of board [...]

Alien News Vacuum Revealed! Snarfer - Changing to Suit Humans.  
We review a great number of communities, startups, gadgets and other technology related to Web 2.0, but I have never really thought of reviewing something that I use to find some of this stuff. Snarfer is a friendly RSS manager that sits down there in my system tray just waiting to gobble (well actually he snorts) up news from around the world.
Snarfer is a feed aggregator that is really fast, diversified and simple [...]