Bands as startups February 22, 2007
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Last week my sneak preview for tonight’s class included a video by Maldroid. Here’s more on the band and their marketing strategy.
How Yahoo didn’t blow it February 9, 2007
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Yesterday we talked about the Wired article (linked on the class calendar) re Yahoo’s failure to keep pace with Google. The issue: a management focused more on marketing than the company’s core technology.
That may be changing. Yahoo has just released Yahoo Pipes, a cutting-edge content mash-up site. Probably not a Google killer, but still, it’s reviving Yahoo’s reputation as an online innovator.
Lonelygirl15 February 9, 2007
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Here’s the first video in the series created by a group of Hollywood entrepreneurs as a means of breaking into the film industry:
More here.
Web 2.0 in a nutshell February 6, 2007
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Web 2.0 is the buzzword of today’s internet entrepreneurship. Here’s a short video explaining the collaborative web:
, from Boingboing.
Four million dollar financing for web layout service February 5, 2007
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Read about this new deal and more at Mashable.com, a news service on social networking ventures.
Web 2.0 for the entrepreneur February 5, 2007
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In class last week one of you pointed to web-based applications as a cutting-edge entrepreneurial sector. If you’re not familiar with them, there’s a nice introduction in the latest Entrepreneur Magazine, and it’s now up on the web.
Also, here are a couple of apps I use pretty regularly: Zoho and Google docs.
The terroir of tinytown January 27, 2007
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You may have noticed that many of the links on the class site look like this: http://tinyurl.com/yqvmxw
Why is that?
Well, since you asked, I’ll tell you. One of the problems of web page formatting is that a link to a long URL (web page address) can wreck the way a page looks by pushing the sidebar down to the bottom. In fact, this happenened on my class blog for a while last semester. Shortening the URL helps prevent this problem, so I make it a habit to shrink my links at tinyurl.com.
Of course, tinyurl is of interest to this class for reasons that go beyond formatting this blog. How do you think this makes money? What can you learn from it?
