Photo of the Week: This was the view from Sweet View on Derby Day at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 05.06.07
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo? Nope.
Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google
last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with
Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post
has learned. Opps, false alarm.
Breaking:
Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr
The Yahoo Photos service will
be shut down in favor of the newer and more social Flickr, which they
acquired in March of 2005. Peanut butter clean-up?
YouTube
Makes Some Members Content Partners
Participating user-partners will be treated as other content partners
and will have the ability to control the monetization of the videos
they create. Once they’ve selected a video to be monetized, we’ll place
advertising adjacent to their content and share the revenue with the
content producer.
Small is The
New Big
Now that Web 2.0 is growing up, scale no longer matters. GigaOm
explains how even tiny businesses—like transcription services—can go
global.
eBay
widgets
What a fantastic and easy way to promote your auctions or Ebay fund
raisers on your blog! The set-up for this widget is very simple to
figure out. There are no technical hurdles for newbies to worry about.
The
(Re)Birth of Mobile Banking
While the upcoming iPhone launch is capturing the lion’s share of
attention in the Wireless industry, the re-introduction of Mobile
Banking has been at the core of a movement to make a cell phone your
next wallet.
Calacanis’
latest, Project X, Kokua?
Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs Inc., and now an
entrepreneur-in-action at Sequoia Capital is working on a new company
called, Project X. Valleywag published some details about the company
earlier this week, that has the apparent backing of Mark Cuban. I am
hoping Mark also buys the Chicago Cubs at seasons end.
Most
Profitable Web 2.0 Business: Conferences
The tech conference
business continues to amaze me. They are true champion revenue
generators of the web 2.0 area.
Rebrand
& New Features: Google IG To Relaunch as iGoogle
Google’s
personalized home page, Google IG, has been rebranded as iGoogle and
launched at igoogle.com.
Twittering more than blogging
I sent 1,327 text messages last month, many of which were related to
twitter so I have to say that I did not write anywhere near 1,327 blog
posts in the same time. Marshall Kirkpatrick explains how he is has
been twittering a lot more than blogging as well.
