Mahalo: Human (Ego) Powered Search Engine
Jason Calacanis is a well known personality in the internet sector. He has done everything from running a newspaper during the original dot com boom, to founding blogging network Weblogs (which he later sold to AOL). His latest project is a human powered search engine called Mahalo (it’s Hawaiian for ‘thank you’).
Calacanis prepared for this […]
last.fm The First Music Network To Be Sold
Maybe it was my post about how I preferred last.fm to Pandora which did it, but whatever it was, mainstream media have finally got round to snapping up music networking sites in their trawl of Web 2.0. These are the sites that allow users to discover new music via the tastest& listening habits of their […]
If you don’t have Web Analytics installed you really are crazy
It really does surprise me that so many companies still have no form of web analytics installed on their sites and moreover the amount of companies that have it installed but do not spent time analysing the data made available to them.
In the past I’ve worked for large organisations turning over millions and they […]
A Practical Example of Affiliate Marketing with Widgets
If you’re reading this blog then the chances are you know what widgets are and you may well have heard it suggested that 2007 would be the “Year of the Widget”. We’re a big fan of them here at eyefall but it’s often been suggested that they are just “nice to haves” and […]
Murdoch Buys Another Web 2.0 Site
It seems that Rupert Murdoch can’t get enough of Web 2.0. First he bought MySpace. And now, via MySpace, he has bought the photo & video sharing site Photobucket. The site may not be that familiar to many in the UK, but in the US it is more popular than Flickr, which is owned by […]
Hitwise, Kate Moss and unhappy customers
Hitwise, the competitor intelligence company recently purchased by Experian, released some data recently suggesting that the Kate Moss clothing range at Topshop helped the site reach its highest UK visits over the past year – the range sold out within 12 hours and was a resounding success. Or was it?
Whilst the range may well have […]
Are The Search Engines Really Looking To Get Into SEM?
Google is going to buy DoubleClick, which includes search marketing company Performics. And whilst Yahoo! has also said that it wants to buy an ad-serving company, MSN is apparently going to go exactly the same path as Google and buy an ad management company, 24/7 Real Media which also offers search marketing.
Danny Sullivan does a […]
Does Anyone Still Think YouTube Wasn’t Value For Money?
As everyone knows by now, last year saw Google’s acquisition of video upload site, and Web 2.0 standard bearer, YouTube for $1.65 billion (about £890 million). Since then the general consensus of opinion has often appeared to be that Google were simply throwing money away.
I’ve always felt that if Google can make $3.66 billion in […]
Microsoft vs. Google
Anyone looking at the world of internet business in the late 90s would probably have laughed at the suggestion that within 10 years Microsoft would be thought of as the little guy in a David & Goliath style struggle. But that is exactly what Google has managed to.
Two Gartner analysts have explained exactly how this […]
Search Round-Up
We thought that today we would just cast a quick glance over the general search/internet landscape as there is so much going on right now.
Pronet Advertising analyses some research about how embracing social media has effected the traffic on the USA Today website. I’m glad to say that it has really paid off!
They also talk […]
