Ken Yarmosh is a web strategy consultant who helps organizations, businesses, VCs, and technology developers maximize their Internet and web investments.
The last two years, Forbes.com has graded Google on the performance of its Search Properties (see 2005 and 2006 Google Report Cards). Compete.com’s Jeremy Crane took a more quantitative look at how Google did in 2006. The results: major growth in the Video, Blog, Scholar, and Desktop Search Properties.
According to Jeremy’s analysis, Froogle, Local, and Directory fall into [...]
2006 was another big year for the web. It saw the rise of YouTube, the dominance of MySpace, and more generally a focus on social networks and social networking on the web.
I didn’t make predictions about this year. Instead, I noted that there were several big opportunities for established online players and their start-up counterparts to go [...]
Sometimes the web world makes me angry.
My peers need to stop creating crazy words like blogging, vlogging, podcasting, and wikis. And please, it’s time to end the coining of terms like mash-ups or folksonomy.
Technology is thankfully pushed forward by those on the edge. But advancements need to be communicated to those in the mainstream. It [...]
Written by Joseph LeBlanc
With recent eBay auctions of websites like Kiko and Huckabuck, there’s a lingering question as to how many new web services will sell. In the past, large companies like Microsoft, AOL, and Google have purchased smaller ones as a way of either removing potential competition or acquiring talented developers. In both cases, [...]
There were some interesting discussions late last week regarding Rich Internet Applications (RIA), a new term called “webified”, and the webtop. If you recall, I’ve been doing a series on the webtop and how I disagree with it being called a WebOS (thus far, I’ve pointed to Bubbles and SimTimer as examples of what I [...]
Here’s a bit of free (yet unsolicited) advice for VCs. And I’m not trying to be too presumptuous, pessimistic, or mean but if you are trying to fund a new social network - whether niche based or otherwise - I’d seriously reconsider.
As part of that target market and a web strategy consultant, I have the [...]
A number of people have thrown around the word “webtop” - but in doing so, I think they miss what the future of the web might have in store for us. Web 2.0 purists believe a Web 2.0 world where all functionality, all true computing occurs within the browser or some form of it. But [...]
Back in May, MySpaceIM finally launched after much anticipation. But it really hasn’t caught on - I downloaded it then and to this point, virtually no one I know is using it.
Well, it looks like MySpace is ready to change that. MySpaceIM is now prominently being advertised on the home page of the site.
One [...]
As I’ve seen more and more social networks launch, there definitely seemed to be an evolution happening. The concept of the “Smart” Social Network dawned on me after I learned about Multiply. At that point, I already knew about Vox and previously wrote about imbee, so I decided to write a post on what I [...]
TechCrunch is reporting that third-party MySpace widgets such as those by the ever popular YouTube are no longer allowed to have link throughs. This move is due to recent past security issues, including a flash based worm “that had spread far and wide through the site and sent users to an off site page claiming [...]
I was chatting on Skype with Pete Cashmore last week and I was glad that he came to the same conclusion I have about the current state of the blogosphere. If you haven’t noticed, the rich are getting richer - big blogs are getting bigger. They are getting more eyeballs, pageviews, and advertising dollars. The [...]
Last week Scoble explained why he was unsubscribing from Memeorandum. More recently he wrote:
One thing I’ve enjoyed recently is just reading feeds and staying away from the Memetrackers (although, I’ll be honest, I’ve peeked at Memeorandum a few times, it’s a very hard addiction to break).
Pete Cashmore also says that he has “eased off on [...]
I don’t necessarily agree with Seth’s premise that multiple posts per day “make it easy to lose loyal readers.” I think it is too generalizing. It really depends on the quality of the content. I’m happy to keep subscribed to a blogger that does multiple posts a day, as long as the content is relevant.
To [...]
I normally am on board with Pete Cashmore but he’s making some brash comments on a couple of his latest posts.
First, he called coComment the best Web 2.0 service launched this year (if need be, check out this refresher on coComment):
I love, love, LOVE CoComment! The idea is a good one: bring together your widely [...]
The tech blogosphere is troubling lately. Lots of echoes, as seen by the Yahoo! acquisition. Lots of silly debate, as exemplified by the current discussion about Web 2.0 being dead.
I’m not against an old-fashioned dustup amongst geeks but debating the legitimacy of Web 2.0 doesn’t seem to be a worthwhile use of our intellect. [...]
Take a quick survey of the ever changing Web 2.0 landscape and you will notice that the most successful services have two key elements. The first is that they offer some sort of compelling value proposition to users. The second is that this value proposition is driven by a laser focused service offering.
If we define [...]
Today’s Web startups are not entirely unlike their dot.com predecessors when it comes to the way they are thinking about making money. The differences for “Web 2.0″ type companies stem not from their preferred business models - models that are very similar to their dot.com counterparts - but in the forces influencing the implementation of [...]
David Hornick continues the discussion about the problem facing Web 2.0 start-ups - a business model built around “buy me”. I’ve wrote about similar sentiments in the past. He opines,
there are a large number of “companies” being created again for the express purpose of being acquired. I certainly have seen it. I have met with [...]
If we learned anything from “Web 1.0” (no, this term wasn’t ‘Web 1.0’ until recently, sort of like how World War I was originally just ‘The Great War’), it was the demolition of the Field of Dreams mentality – if you build it, they won’t necessarily come.
While I spent the better part of last [...]
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