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BusinessWeek's Business Exchange: putting Web 2.0 in its proper place

In a post more than a year ago, I discussed the commoditization of social networks.

by Drama 2.0 24 September 2008 17:04pm 1 comment

Site review: property search engine Globrix

Launched earlier this year, Globrix is a property search engine which claims to have nearly every property on the market in the UK listed on its site.

Rather than charging estate agents a fee, as sites like Rightmove do, Globrix scrapes listings from estate agents' websites, hoping to make the site more comprehensive than its rivals.

by Graham Charlton 18 September 2008 11:09am 5 comments

Google turns 10

This weekend, Google celebrated its 10th birthday.

In September 1998, armed with $100,000 in seed money, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page began a journey that a decade later has seen the development of a $150bn company that employs more than 20,000 people.

by Drama 2.0 08 September 2008 08:30am 1 comment

The first half of 2008: the internet economy in review

With the first half of 2008 solidly behind us, I thought it'd be worthwhile to look back at some of the general trends established in the internet economy. After all, it's hard to know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

What follows are the most important trends I saw in the first half of the year.

by Drama 2.0 03 September 2008 08:50am 0 comments

The Web Week in Review

It was a slow news week in the world of technology as far as I was concerned, but there were still a few stories that caught my eye.

by Drama 2.0 22 August 2008 10:45am 1 comment

The Web Week in Review

This week's news was quite a hodgepodge so without delay, let's end the week with a diverse version of Drama 2.0's The Web Week in Review.

by Drama 2.0 01 August 2008 08:49am 0 comments

The Web Week in Review

Given my posts on Viacom's $1bn Google/YouTube lawsuit, it's no surprise that I was in a legal state of mind this week and that the news that caught my attention typically had some legal aspect to it.

by Drama 2.0 25 July 2008 09:15am 1 comment

The Web Week in Review

From a court ruling in the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit to reports that Microsoft is still eyeing Yahoo, Drama 2.0 found no shortage of drama in the news to attract his interest this week.

by Drama 2.0 04 July 2008 09:00am 0 comments

Site review: Sky News beta

Sky News is in the process of updating its website. It currently has a new beta site running alongside the old one.

Sky News beta site

It has a bigger, bolder look, but is it an improvement on the old version?

by Graham Charlton 27 June 2008 16:43pm 0 comments

Are virtual goods the solution to the social network monetization conundrum?

The troubles popular social networks have experienced in monetizing their vast audiences are well-known.

But one of the ironies of troubled economic times - like we're facing now - is that the paper money so popular when times are good starts to play second fiddle to cold hard cash.

by Drama 2.0 24 June 2008 08:45am 2 comments