Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Photobucket Remains Top Dog in Photo-Sharing
Photobucket, which precedes Web 2.0 offerings like Flickr.com, remains No. 1 in photo-sharing due in great part to MySpace users who continue to upload pictures and videos to post elsewhere on the web, reports USA Today.
Photobucket currently serves 3 billion online images for 41 million members and accounts for 40 percent of all photo-sharing content. These figures eclipse Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly and Yahoo Photos, according to Hitwise. Together, Yahoo Photos and Flickr account for only 10 percent of the share.
The company is also generating ad revenue as users remain on the site for extended periods of time to upload photos.
Brand equity and formidable revenue figures lend the sense it may be among the next major websites for sale. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says the site could sell for between $300 and $400 million.
Photobucket's reliance on MySpace may leave the company open to a crippling blow should the social networking vortex develop its own uploading abilities.
High numbers, however, keep the longstanding website confident. Last weekend alone over 8 million photos were uploaded.
Forget GooTube; YahooSoft May Be Around the Corner
Microsoft and Yahoo recently engaged in talks about banding together against Google - even discussing a possible merger, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The talks have concluded, but speculation about their potential outcome are just beginning.
Microsoft's online division is suffering from a failure to compete with Google on search. They recently missed an opportunity to acquire online advertising giant DoubleClick, which was quickly snapped up by its Goliathan competitor. The talks with Yahoo preclude a company on the verge of big change.
Microsoft may be poised to change its executive roster or consolidate some units. It may also decide to repartner with Yahoo. Yahoo briefly provided search and ad technology on Microsoft's behalf through its product Yahoo Search Marketing, formerly Overture. The relationship ended last year when Microsoft released a competitive offering, Microsoft AdCenter.
Yahoo's may depend on "Project Panama," a delayed upgrade to their ad system. The model could reportedly use Microsoft's technical expertise; in another potential arrangement, Microsoft could manage the back-end of both companies while Yahoo handles the consumer end.
Despite the possibilities, however, Yahoo is reportedly disinterested in working with Microsoft.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
What high search engine rankings can mean to your web
A survey conducted by market research firm TNS revealed that 75% of all online shoppers said that company size was not a factor in having their online shopping needs satisfied. Only 15% said they preferred to shop with large retailers (Source: TNS).
More than 80% of all Internet users find new web sites through search engines (Source: Georgia Tech/GVU Users Survey). That means that about 650 million people use search engines to find web sites.
Search engine users are some of the most qualified and motivated visitors to your web site you will ever have. After all, they have taken the initiative to hunt for online resources on a certain topic. And then they clicked your link to learn more.
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Friday, May 4, 2007
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Computing pioneer Vannevar Bush outlined the Web's core idea - hyperlinked pages - in 1945, but the first person to try to build out the concept was a freethinker named Ted Nelson who envisioned his own scheme in 1965. However, he had little success connecting digital bits on a useful scale, and his efforts were known only to an isolated group of disciples. Few of the hackers writing code for the emerging Web in the 1990s knew about Nelson or his hyperlinked dream machine.
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In 1996 the Chicago Bulls reigned supreme and Michael Jordan was raking in $80 million per year. Joe Kleine was last on the bench, making the NBA minimum of $272,250.
Same winning team. Why the 300:1 difference in pay?
Because Michael Jordan was just slightly better than everyone else.
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Thomas Friedman put it like this: "The gap between first place and second place grows larger, and the gap between first place and last place becomes staggering. In many fields there is rarely one winner, but those near the top get a disproportionate share.
"The potential market for any good or service, for any singer or songwriter, for any author or actor, for any doctor or lawyer, for any athlete or academic, now extends from one end of the world to the other.
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