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Okay first, let's establish two things as public service announcements: Don't pay $200 for a PlayStation 2; if you stumble over almost…
Google’s “Bourne Ultimatum” and Threadless t-shirt contests both looked like fun - and potentially rewarding - activities, but they’ve (so far) failed to impress. The Bourne site is suffering from a number of technical problems; the Threadless competition appears to have outlawed a perfectly natural course of action.
Forgive me. I err on the side of art. That means I don't like formulas much. Formulas give us over-saturation of reality shows, twisted versions of pure originals, and Spice Girl reunions. While I understand that making the intangible tangible can be valuable, the true visionaries pay no attention to how you're supposed to do it.
Imagine if Google paid $1 for every search you performed - pretty cool, right? Now, Sharogle couldn’t afford nearly that rate, but it was, by all accounts, “a search engine that shares its revenue with users.” Emphasis on “was” - Google pulled its ads from the site, and Sharogle now faces an uncertain future.
Redfin is an “online brokerage for residential real estate,” and, if you read the company’s website, it was actually the first one. It’s probably also the richest - Redfin just received $12 million in financing.
MySpace is still beating Facebook in the UK - News Corp.’s site receives 41 percent more visits. But Facebook has just overtaken the older social network in terms of Internet searches, and this has big implications for the future.
