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Recently Michael Arrington from TechCrunch.com interviewed 13 Web 2.0 CEOs (and 1 VP) about the direction of Web 2.0, where they see it going, are we back in a bubble, and, of course, what browser they use
The people interviewed were:
* Aaron Cohen (Bolt)* Scott Milener and Steven Lurie (Browster)* Keith Teare (edgeio)* Steven [...]

Kiko a online calendar service has decided to pull down the shutters. They offer Ajax based calendar service, which is much more useable & definitely has more features then the entrenched players like Google Calendar & Yahoo Calendar. The company backed by venture capitalist Y Combinator was launched late August last year & claims to [...]

Kool IM is just one of the latest offering for browser based messenger, Following the footsteps of Sequoia funded Meebo which was launched late last year & Netherlands based EBuddy revamped for web 2.0 in February. Moreover this sites are claiming to be profitable, I think is because of the long time people stay on [...]

According to the latest quarterly installment of David Sifry’s "State of the Blogosphere" report the blogosphere is doubling in size every six months and is now 60 times larger than it was three years ago, On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - more than 75,000 new blogs created every day. [...]

If you really want to compare the status of Online Advertising in India vs that in the US the following observation done exclusively by WATblog really gives you an idea how far away we are from both Internet being a mass medium and Online Advertising being a serious factor in overall advertising in India. So while selecting a brand [...]

Lycos Inc. is revamping its free Webmail service Lycos Mail will now offer its subscribers 3 Gb of storage, up from just 5 Mb, and will allow them to send file attachments of any size.

By comparison, Yahoo Inc.’s Yahoo Mail offers, in its ad-supported free version, 1G byte of storage and a 10M-byte limit on [...]

The americans do it better than the Indians when it comes to being socialising at 50 years and above or well thats what i make of a social networking site Eons.com launched by founder of Internet job site Monster.com, Jeff Taylor. This social networking site is very much like the ever popular teen hangout Myspace.com but its specifically [...]

The god of search has done it yet again! they have come up with a product that is not only innovative but is also humanitarian in nature. Google’s latest product is the Google Accessible which is a search engine for the visually impaired. It is currently is beta mode and can be accessed from http://labs.google.com. Now i know [...]

The Executive Summary reporting the July Borrell "Update: Online Real Estate Advertising," gives the following statistics for the US markets:

Real Estate Ad Spending, 2001-2010 ($ millions; projections in italics)

Year

Online Advertising

Total Advertising

Online Share

2001

$395.71

$11,169.84

3.5%

2002

$580.62

$11,166.57

5.2%

2003

$971.10

$11,762.51

8.3%

2004

$1,159.36

$11,202.02

10.3%

2005

$1, 718.68 [...]

Pekoe Tips, Inc. founded in 2006 based in Chicago, Illinois announced the Launch of The Simple Leaf Brand. Pekoe Tips, Inc. recently launched their new online store as well www.thesimpleleaf.com.
The Simple Leaf™ brand has launched with 11 distinctive premium teas from India. Darjeeling, Assam, The Dooars and Himachal Pradesh are some of the growing regions represented.
Choosing the perfect [...]

Sony Ericsson has launched a site known as www.nevermissashot.com in order to promote its new phone cyber shot. They have roped in sexy (thats what i think) tennis players Ana Ivanovic and Daniela Hantuchova. The commercial will be supported by an integrated global press and print campaign, point-of-sale, digital and viral marketing activities.
www.nevermissashot.com, the website offers consumers a [...]

According to a report by Crmmetrix a leading provider of customer-listening solutions the French are most blog savvy outside of the USA. The report put down the following facts:
26.7% of the French online population visit a blog at least once a month.
In addition:

18.8% have posted a comment on a blog
8.1% have created [...]

ClickTale.com is a service which is much needed in the online world. It is surprising that google which has some really good features in google analytics (a web statistics analysis tool) has not taken the initiative to get into this kind of tracking. Well to state in lay man terms clicktale will provide a user [...]

Indian’s are going to teach the Americans a lesson but these lessons would be in Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Math. A Chicago-based online tutoring firm started by 29 year old Bikram Roy an American born of Indian origin launched StudyLoft.com in November 2005, Studyloft.com features about 40 India-based tutors, each who have a [...]