Posts Tagged with ‘web-2.0’

Pretty much everyone who uses the internet has visited (or at least heard of) eBay, which has long been the top online auction marketplace. There are now thousands of business-minded people around the globe whose livelihood now depends solely on eBay and for good reason. Buyers can find the most rare of items, and sellers [...]

There's a lot of chatter about decentralizing Twitter, claiming it's now too valuable to rely on an often flaky service with an API so open that it's destroying the service. What no one seems to want to examine is that giant elephant in the corner: if Twitter is so valuable why isn't anyone willing to [...]

By now we all know how lucrative the market for human-powered search engines has become. There's About.com (which has started to show its age), the indecisive Mahalo research engine, the mobile-focused ChaCha, and even newcomer Stumpedia. Now, there is yet another new service aiming to implement the human element into a search engine, but Site605 [...]

Anyone who has sold items using eBay (or even Craigslist) knows how much more potential an item has to sell when a photo is provided. And 'actual' images are better than the 'stock' photos that some sellers download from the manufacturer's website. Prospective buyers don't just want to read a description, they want to see [...]

Streamzy is a newly launched service, founded by 21-year olds Jesse Chemtob and Brian Krantz, which is best described as a streaming media search engine. It gives users the ability to search for music (video will be added soon) which can be streamed live on the web and, for registered users, saved among a playlist [...]

I'm back in New York now after my week in San Francisco last week and am still adjusting to the cultural shift. Not only am I back in the suburbs where I have to drive everywhere, but how I use Web 2.0 apps is in stark contrast to how I used them last week, and [...]

You would have thought that companies involved in selling digital media (especially those with DRM content) would have learned a lesson after the fiasco Google went through when the company decided to close its video marketplace. That was last August, when Google abruptly cut off access to the videos that many customers had rightfully purchased [...]

The launch of the iPhone (shortly followed by the iPod Touch) seemed to fuel developer's desires to create mobile-specific web applications despite the device's ability to access the entire internet (without the WAP/WML limitations of most mobile devices). Many mobile web users find the wireless application protocol (WAP) too restrictive and slow, greatly limiting what [...]

In picking my session for the afternoon today at Web 2.0 Expo, I was torn between three. Two were more interesting to me personally, but I thought Profy readers would be most interested in the Startup Metrics 101 session with Dave McClure and Hiten Shah. Most Web 2.0 projects (and that includes bloggers) live and [...]