Kurt Cagle lists out 12 traits of most Web 2.0 companies. 1. Mashups. 2. Extensive Use of Syndication. 3. Preferential Use of Open Standards and Open Source. 4. Diversity of Platforms. 5. Asynchronous Messaging vs. Synchronous RPCS. 6....

Stefanie Olsen asks what people at Yahoo and Google must be mulling every day: Can a giant Internet portal like Yahoo or Google also create original content that people want to read or watch? Or are the portals destined to be like cable television...

Did you know that Instablogs has 4 health-dedicated blogs? Today we have redesigned 2 more blogs- thefatproblem and diabetesblog. Obesity and Diabetes are two big silent killers. Here, you will find the latest news and advice on coping and...

NBC scored dismally with its TV coverage of the Winter Olympics but the response to online coverage of the event went better than expected. This was the first year when increasing number of people went online to watch the Superbowl ads. And, then watch...

Jeremy Wright has done a great analysis of the Myspace phenomenon. Jeremy says that ‘MySpace is the New Blogosphere’,kind of Blogosphere on steroids. Two of his points are specially ‘lookable’. Point1 (There are) about 30M...

Marketing Sherpa’s latest report covers the booming usage of RSS feeds. It finds that many consumers across U.S. in fact do not even know that they are receiving their information via RSS!! Your average web user does not recognize the meaning of...

Explaining the challenge for media companies while targeteing tech-savvy teenagers, Jon Fine at Businesssweek points out the success of Myyearbook and Myspace as ideal benchmark beacons for all media owners lost at sea. There are serious challenges...

Desire Athow at Network Watch has compiled a great list of 48 improvements he would like in Gmail. My favorites from the list: No. # 2. Notepad like draft/tasklist Gmail is very useful for storing notes and drafts that you are working on. You can...

Let’s continue with the idea of Apple plus Microsoft. This idea never fails to inspire conversation like this one. Now, supposing AppleSoft becomes a reality in some far, far galaxy, and you were given a choice between the two operating systems,...

A judge has issued injunction against Google in the Perfect 10 Image Search case. As you know, Perfect 10 is an adult-oriented site dealing with biological [:-)] images. The judge ruled that Google’s image search service, which displays small...