June 30, 2006
Fast changes, happening even faster
Read/Write Web had a great write up on YouTube's explosive growth - and aside from the conflicting reports from different traffic reporting agencies - this quote I found the most interesting:
So in the space of just 6 months YouTube has not only overtaken Yahoo Video as the most popular Web video-sharing service on the planet, but it's now approx 3 times as big as Yahoo's product! That just shows (once again) how quickly the status quo can change on the Web.
Full Article at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_nearly.php
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June 29, 2006
Buzznet - word!
Buzznet has some real Alexa ranking growth - they have breached the 2000 mark and seem to be growing very very quickly.
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Widget's..
A byproduct of everyone now having a online profile is the rise of the web-widget. Russel I think has everyone beat:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/home/
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June 28, 2006
Silicon Beat and Google
Talk about a strategic blunder... the thought of Google and MySpace, combined, boggles the mind. Instead, Google is left thinking of what could have been. And to add insult to injury, it may turn out that not acquiring MySpace may end up being more expensive for Google!
As widely reported, MySpace is now the largest source of search traffic for Google, accounting for over 8% of their inbound traffic as of early May. That essentially means that MySpace is responsible for about $400 million of Google's annual revenues. Knowing this, MySpace is trying to capitalize by holding an auction for its search business. If Google wins, it will end up sharing a significant percentage of that $400 million with MySpace... John Battelle thinks the split to MySpace will be close to 90%. And Google would need to pay it every year. Needless to say, had Google acquired MySpace, no such payments would have to be made.
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June 27, 2006
Newscorp's Revenue Breakdown (courtesy of Wired)
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Rafat takes Investment
From SoCalTech:
Interview with Rafat Ali, ContentNext
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I had the chance to speak yesterday to Rafat Ali, founder of ContentNext (www.contentnext.com), a company that just received a round of venture capital funding from GreyCroft Partners, a new VC fund headed by Alan Patricof. Santa Monica-based ContentNext operates paidContent.org, MocoNews, and ContentSutra, three online news sites covering aspects of the media and content business. Rafat started paidContent as his own personal blog, and I thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind how the blog started, the transition to a standalone company, and now, his venture funding.
Rafat Ali: ContentNext is comprised of several web sites, including paidContent, which I initially started about 4 years ago: http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0004399.html
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