Just How Digg-Like Are They? Chart Comparing New Sites by Yahoo, Microsoft & Dell
The Yahoo Suggestion Board, Dell IdeaStorm, and MSN Reporter were all released last week and were all at least, shall we say, “Digg Inspired.” ButRead More…
Category: Web 2.0
Yahoo vs. Digg: Is Yahoo’s Move As Innocent As It Looks?
So Yahoo today released a Digg-like voting system as the backbone of the Yahoo Suggestion Board. Even though the Yahoo announcement credited Digg, theRead More…
Groupthink in Digg: A Suggested Solution
I love Digg. I check in at least daily. I love the site, love the concept, and love that it works so well. I always enjoy it when a social network seeRead More…
Google Discloses Payout to YouTube Founders: Hurley $345M & Chen $326M
When Google bought YouTube back in October for $1.65 billion, we didn’t know exactly what this meant for the founders financially. But now we know. Read More…
Wal-Mart Goes Digital Movies… Why Netflix May Dethrone Them Again
Wal-Mart today announced a partnership with all six major Hollywood Studios (Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and UniversRead More…
Can Viacom Force YouTube to Implement Automatic Blocking of Video Uploads?
So we’ve all heard the news of Viacom demanding YouTube to take down 100,000+ videos of various shows including good stuff from Comedy Central. A ViRead More…
A Closer Look at Ozmozr
Ozmozr (a microformat-aware aggregator / resource sharing / social site) has been getting a fair amount of press since it’s alpha release last weekRead More…
The iStock Intellectual Property Double Standard
iStock, a site that hooks up people who take pictures with people who are looking for pictures, has hit a rough patch. It appears a contributor to iRead More…
Scandal 2.0: Is Microsoft the only company paying for Wikipedia edits?
Microsoft is getting some bad press for offering to pay a blogger to change a supposedly inaccurate article on Wikipedia. The blogger let it out in thRead More…
What’s Your Google / Microsoft / Yahoo Usage Breakdown?
So Yahoo released earnings info today, which was followed by mildly negative even if hopeful commentary. Google, of course, being cited as the major oRead More…