After three years, analysts believe that MySpace is worth $15 billion as reported by CNET News.com. It was acquired for $580 million less than a year ago. MySpace has made some moves regarding advertising so much that they have sold out in some segments such as video. Read the rest of this entry »

Ars Technica posted an article today regarding Web 2.0 funding and making it a successful business model. There is a huge discrepancy between investments and those that turn into Web 2.0 companies. Read the rest of this entry »

According to CNET News.com, Google will be adding a feature to advertiser accounts to show the number of clicks occurring on their ads through click fraud. It will not only show the number of clicks but percentage of clicks as well. It is estimated that 14-20% of clicks are fraudulent on pay per click advertisements. Google had recently been hit with quite a few lawsuits regarding the issue and this seems to be one step toward combatting the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

There was a post a few days ago on SFGate in their Tech Chronicle section regarding investing in Web 2.0. People are tending to be more cautious this time around as opposed to the first dot-com bubble. The blog poster says this could be precaution, but the investors might be losing out on a great opportunity. Read the rest of this entry »

CNET News.com had a post a couple days ago about LAMP in the industry. For those of you that don’t know LAMP is Linux operating system, Apache Web Server, MySQL database, and a scripting language such as PHP, Perl, or Python. Many times I will use this system on Mac OS X and use PHP as my scripting language of choice. Read the rest of this entry »

PC World had an article last week about the number on finance websites. The most popular is Yahoo by far and MSN at a distant second. Google just recently launched its finance site and ranks 42nd on a list tabulated by Hitwise. Read the rest of this entry »

So I’ve been pretty busy lately, and have fallen behind on my blog entries. Some of the things I will be blogging on I have collected over the past few weeks so if it seems like old new to you, it might just be that, but I figured I still wanted to mention the subjects in my blog because it?s worth reading. The article on BusinessWeek Online describes Ray Lane of Oracle?s take on Web 2.0. He used to work for Oracle and now he is moving in the startup direction for those that don’t know. Read the rest of this entry »

According to CNET News.com, News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media has purchased Newroo and kSolo two start-up companies that let users remix music and media on the Internet. Newroo allows users to add information from websites and blogs and add it to their own site. kSolo allows users to record audio over song recordings. Read the rest of this entry »

CNET News.com had an interesting article regarding high definition television signals. There are high costs in equipment on the consumer and high costs for TV broadcasters. Televisions are expensive for consumers and HD quality cameras are expensive for the broadcasters. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of days ago the NY Times had an article about MySpace’s approach to big profit. The domain name MySpace.com was purchased in 2002 by Chris DeWolfe. The site originally was used to sell a motor skooter. DeWolfe had experience in online marketing such as e-mail blasts and pop-up advertising. MySpace took a different approach. Read the rest of this entry »