Photo of the Week: American Flag on Parade at Dewey Beach for the 'Running of the Bulls' taken by Matt Hirschmann.
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 07.08.07
Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults
In
the months prior to allowing open registration, Facebook.com’s traffic
hovered at approximately 14 million visitors per month. However, after
Facebook opened its doors to the general public, visitation accelerated
to reach a level of 26.6 million visitors.
Your Content is About to Be Worth $4.3B
MediaWeek reports that advertising on social networks, blogs and other venues where consumers produce content is about to become a much bigger business than it is now. It's on pace to be a billion-dollar business this year. However, by 2011 it will grow to $4.3B.
Twitter v Pownce: It’s The API, Stupid
Nik Cubrilovic compares Twitter to Pownce and believes that there are two key things that Twitter has done well that Pownce has overlooked completely.
CrunchBase
TechCrunch quietly rolls out a web 2.0 directory of companies and services.
MyBlogLog: DNS for People
Ian
Kennedy explains MyBlogLog's strategy. They want to build a platform
which allows you to get to know someone through what they produce and
share, collectively, across all networks and the internet.
Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources
A great list of podcasting resources aggregated by Mashable.
'Hyper-Local' Site Backfence Shutting Down
Backfence emerged about the same time, a couple of years ago, as InsiderPages, Judy's Book and Yelp. Now it appears to be closing its doors.
Classified Info: Craigslist Alternatives Compared
The online classified sites compared.
Sphere Quietly Nailing Its Business Model
Instead of focusing on building a better blog search engine (an area that Google now dominates after a recent Technorati refocus), Sphere has spent its time developing technology that automatically finds blog posts related to whatever a user is looking at
Netvibes, now with one less CEO
GigaOm reports on some changes at Netvibes which includes the departure of Pierre Chappaz. Chappaz is leaving Netvibes and instead will be focusing on Wikio, his personalized blog and news search service that is now said to have two million unique visitors a month.
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Wow! CrunchBase really was released quietly...Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by: Chris Rossini | Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 11:48 PM