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Web 2.0 Business Models
Today's Web startups are not entirely unlike their dot.com predecessors when it comes to the way they are thinking about making money.
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Wikipedia is the Next Google
Fear. You can just feel it in the air, can't you? There is fear everywhere that Google has become too powerful. As John Battelle notes, the tide of public opinion is starting to turn from loving Google to fearing them.
Grateful Dead’s Strange Download Trip Ends
The widow of Jerry Garcia and the surviving band members had asked Archive.org to take downloadable recordings of the band offline, but the resulting fan outrage has forced a change of heart.
Google Readying Gmail Anti-Virus Utility
The search advertising company has been prepping anti-virus scanning for its web-based email client, a development sure to spur antacid sales at places like Symantec and McAfee.
Privacy Concerns May Impact Google Analytics
Business is up for one web analytics provider after Google rebranded Urchin and launched a version of it as a free service, and that could be due to privacy questions.
IBM, Oracle Standardizing Web Services
Sometimes a great joke never dies. Just substitute "Web" for "Unix" in the following canonical one-liner and you'll see what I mean: "The nice thing about Unix standards is that there are so many to choose from."
