Web 2.0

A hundred billion plus dollar business ensued: we all now use Google to find that which we want to find on the web. In particular, Google is great at delivering authority on the web for those things that had already been published and ranked: In a way, Google has become the reference libraria...

While some of America’s competitors were throttling up on manufacturing and R&D, we de-emphasized technology. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services. While our financial services business has performed well, I can’t tell you that we were enti...

Thanks to those of you who chimed in, via email, Twitter, Facebook, and comments, on our first interview at Web 2 next month with Brian Roberts.    Next up on day one is Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter. I've had the pleasure before (at FM's CM Summit), and posted...

Comcast Interactive is an interesting play as well - a distinct entity with a number of newly purchased assets (Fandango, Plaxo, Daily Candy, etc) that may or may not find itself competing directly with Yahoo, MSN, and AOL someday, not to mention Google. It's clear to me that one of the next...

For the sake of argument, let’s suppose Twitter’s eventual dominant business model is putting ads by search results. Who gets the revenue when a user is searching on a 3rd party Twitter client? Even if Twitter gets a portion of revenue from ads on 3rd party apps, there will always be an incen...

Now, Web 2 is known for in depth interviews with titans of business like GE CEO Jeff Immelt, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, or former HP CEO and pending Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina - all of them are coming this year. And it's known for having the stalwarts of the Internet industry represe...

And leaving they are, if this report from Nielsen is to be believed. Widely picked up last week in the Twitterverse, the report does the math and finds that 60 percent of those who try Twitter abandon the service within a month. That means no matter how steep the inflection, Twitter will soon b...

1. Tweetsense - AdWords and AdSense like platform for Twitter. This has major scale potential. Whoever buys Twitter, they wrote, “will likely have to operate it at a loss in perpetuity, or until the next cool Web 2.0 social networking concept comes along and Twitter tweets no more.”

Why not? Well, if you could use Facebook as an instance of Twitter, well, that would feed the Twitter ecosystem, would it not? It'd validate Twitter and drive Twitter adoption and traffic. Just like Yahoo's adoption of Google did back in 2000-2002, or Netscape's adoption of Yahoo did back...

Read the entire post here. As part of a partnership with HP, I'm writing over at their new Small Business Marketing Guide. Longtime readers know I always am transparent about these deals, as I was with my work at American Express. I love this work, because it lets me write longer form, and never...

What? Is Battelle crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most folks (including me) saw this as Google "getting into the video business," and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all...

Another type of candidate might be folks from major ad platforms. David Rosenblatt falls in that category, but he's got a very big job at Google, and I'm not sure he'd want to go boil another ocean. But what about Brian McAndrews, who sold aQuantive to Microsoft? (Web 2 video).

I've told you before about the Web 2 Expo, it's the cousin of our original Web 2 conference (now called the Summit). I'm pleased to report that more folks have registered for the Expo than we originally predicted, and not only that, the lineup of keynote speakers is really...

Now imagine instead, that when that person comes from search, they are greeted with a box that pops up and is informed by the search referral information that we all carry with us as we click away from Google or other search engines. That box surfaces a smart search based on the referral - perh...

Most of you know that I am a partner and Program Chair of the Web 2 Summit. That event has been oversold for three years now, and my partners O'Reilly and CMP have launched a second event targeted at a broader (and much larger) audience. As part of that...

During the two-year period from one edition of Google TMM to the next, Google began adding features and services at such an increasingly quick clip that while the second edition was at the printer, we missed out on eight new tools. That was in a 10-day period. (Some of those new tools are searc...

Digg in Acquisition Talks With Several Giants Yahoo Updates Yahoo Bookmarks With New Features Firefox 2.0 Debuts Google's Confidential Ethnographic Research on YouTube InkyAnswers: A New Natural Language Search Engine (Beta)...

Eric Schmidt - CEO Google Jack Ma - CEO Alibaba (including Yahoo China) Ray Ozzie - Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Roger McNamee and Ram Shriram- Venture investors (Elevation Partners and Board member, Google) David Filo - Founder, Yahoo

I'm really looking forward to this event, I think it'll be where the rubber meets the road. (Disclosure-As Program Chair for Web 2.0, I'm a partner in the Web 2.0 conference business with O'Reilly and CMP, though I am not directly involved in the Expo business itself.)