Byte Podcast # 134 - Descarga directa Esta semana en Byte Podcast platicamos sobre tecnologías que se incluirán en los autos familiares a partir del 2010, para seguridad de los adolescentes que lo piden prestado. Recomendamos un tutorial de Prototype para desarrolladores web y presentamos el Top10 de bromas inofensivas que juegan los geeks a sus compañeros de oficina. Poncho les trae un test de personalidad. Entre la retroalimentación tenemos una experiencia sobre la portabilidad numérica en México y más de sus comentarios. Sigan participando en el sondeo sobre el destino de sus gadgets viejos Byte, tecnología aplicada… a la vida. Podcast 134. Duración: 37 minutos Enlaces: Tutorial de Prototype Top10 de bromas inofensivas para su geek favorito La Página de Poncho: Draw a Pig Eventos próximos: Electronic Game Show, Ciudad de México. Octubre 24 al 26. Congreso de Web 2.0 en Cancún, México. Noviembre 4 y 5. Calendario de eventos de tecnología de Byte Podcast Grabado y Producido en los estudios de Dixo.com Less

Byte Podcast # 134 - Descarga directa Esta semana en Byte Podcast platicamos sobre tecnologías que se incluirán en los autos familiares a partir del 2010, para seguridad de los adolescentes que lo piden prestado. Recomendamos un tutorial de Prototype para desarrolladores web y presentamos el Top10 de bromas inofensivas que juegan los geeks a sus compañeros de oficina. Poncho les trae un test de personalidad. Entre la retroalimentación tenemos una experiencia sobre la portabilidad numérica en México y más de sus comentarios. Sigan participando en el sondeo sobre el destino de sus gadgets viejos Byte, tecnología aplicada… a la vida. Podcast 134. Duración: 37 minutos Enlaces: Tutorial de Prototype Top10 de bromas inofensivas para su geek favorito La Página de Poncho: Draw a Pig Eventos próximos: Electronic Game Show, Ciudad de México. Octubre 24 al 26. Congreso de Web 2.0 en Cancún, México. Noviembre 4 y 5. Calendario de eventos de tecnología de Byte Podcast Grabado y Producido en los estudios de Dixo.com Less

Internet, Advertising, strategy Gregory T. Huang wrote: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Widgetbucks, the online ad network from Seattle-based startup Mpire. Founded in 2005, Mpire’s story makes for a pretty compelling case study in adapting to the market. Although the verdict isn’t in yet—we’ll see how much market share it ends up taking from Google ads, for instance—some early signs of success are apparent. Some 20,000 publishers and blogs use Widgetbucks. The ads get more than a billion impressions per month. And the network has the support of savvy investors like Ignition Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to the tune of $10 million they put in this past June. Earlier this week, I had a chance to speak with Matt Hulett, the chairman and CEO of Mpire and the mastermind of Widgetbucks. He’s a fourth-generation Seattlite, was one of RealNetworks’ first 50 employees (”I was the RealPlayer”), and went on to be president of the corporate travel division at Expedia, a founding partner of Atom Films, and the president of Atom Entertainment (which sold to Viacom for $200 million in 2006). First, I wanted to know how Hulett became involved with Mpire, and where the idea for Widgetbucks came from. Looking at his background, Hulett says, “I’ve picked things to work on that are ‘flanker’ brands. Corporate travel—why are you paying American Express $50, it should be free.” And indie alternatives to big, dumb Hollywood movies. “I like that kind of stuff,” he says. So taking on Google in the ad space is a natural fit for him. Hulett started as a board member of Mpire (the founder is a friend of his). In the beginning, Mpire was trying to make it as an eBay seller-tool business. “It wasn’t doing well,” he says. “There wasn’t a market for it, but I loved the team. They asked me to come in.” That was 2006. “We started to do a comparison shopping site. But the way to get distribution, I thought, was to turn it into an ad network. Consumer websites, from an investment perspective—it’s hard because most investors won’t invest unless you get critical mass. The easiest way is not to drive traffic through Google, but to put my ads [on other sites]… I was running against time, I had to come up with an idea. I started working with eBay, and they liked the analytics we were doing to find the most popular products. We built really cool widgets for them, had a lot of success, got people bidding more. Voila—I thought that would work on other sites.” That was early 2007. Hulett and his technical team launched the Widgetbucks ad network in October of that year. “We had no idea how it was going to do. We thought we’d get a couple hundred million impressions in the first 6 months. We hit that in the first 4 weeks,” he says. “Oh my gosh, we hit something.” The key, Hulett says, is that publishers want better ads. “We’d show the most popular products in each category—MP3 players, HDTVs, cameras…Our ads just look cool. We build rich media around smart technology.” Widgetbucks’ ads are easy to set up, says Hulett, and they’re “smart.” Mpire’s software figures out “what are the right types of ads to show and when,” he explains. “In shopping, we’re checking the performance of our ads. We’ve just launched travel and local ads. We’re wiring up all these different kinds of advertising. The secret sauce is more ways to make money…We constantly monitor what kinds …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte Google Mail Goggles, Beat Stress with Happy Creator, NeighBorrow, Fight Twitter spam, Xtranormal, and more. News of the week: Google Mail Goggles Beat Stress with Happy Creator NeighBorrow launches Fight spam with DM to Twitter TwitterPatterns.com Web App of the Week: Xtranormal Song of the Week: Tom’s Diner Audible pick of the week: The Guns of August, Unabridged, by Barbara W. Tuchman, Narrated by Nadia May. To sign up for a free book, visit Audible.com/night. Bandwidth for net@night is provided by AOL Radio. Running time: 53:41 Less

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Welcome to the very first DOWNLOADABLE Real Estate Listing Directory of it's kind, Podcast Realty™! Podcast Realty™ is the VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL and ONLY searchable real estate listing directory with downloadable audio listing descriptions as Podcasts and videocasts since 2004. This is combined with digital photography, virtual tours and even video podcasts. Now, knowing what's available to buy, sell or rent anywhere in the world has been made even easier. You can now download, listen and even view real estate listing descriptions as described by the listing agents themselves on your computer anytime at your convenience. If you can download a song into your iPod, or any listening device you prefer, you can download our listings. We are now featured in iTunes and many other downloadable formats. Amazing, isn't it? Podcast Realty™ has now made that possible! At Podcast Realty™ you can listen to HONEST and REAL property descriptions directly from the listing agents themselves. Here you'll only find LICENSED Realtors®. We link you directly to the listing agents on each downloadable description for easy access to all of the information on the property of your choice. Every Realtor® licensee found here is an active member in good standing of their State Real Estate Board. Confirmation of each listing is verified as being registered with their local MLS or Multiple Listing Service in order to provide you with quality and reputable real estate information. 2008 - Free e-book Paul Pickering interviews Zahara Mossman RECS CLHMS and Internet Marketing Expert on Web 2.0 and beyond...CLICK HERE TO LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD Click HERE for AMAZING Cyber tips 2008 ZAHARA MOSSMAN Realtor® Internet Marketing Expert, ELECTED CHAIRMAN of the Real Estate Cyberspace Society Chapters for Latin American and Caribbean A - Yahoo! News February 2007 Florida Association of Realtors writes: "...Blogging make take time out of Mossman's day, but it also paints her as a true expert in her field." Click HERE to read more... SEPTEMBER 2006 - Univision.com's Claudia Dubkin interviews Zahara Mossman on Video Podcasting . July Click HERE for the National Association of Realtors - RCA Intelligence Briefings Issue March Click HERE for -Florida Today write up on Podcast Realty December, 2005 - Associated Press - "...agent uses podcasts to lure buyers..." the Boston Globe, AP wire. CLICK HERE - to read the entire article on Zahara Mossman's unique, innovative and cutting edge ways to sell or lease your properties. "What does the future hold for this rising star?", as asked by the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing writer Kris Drain, CLICK HERE to view entire article. ...featured on October 06, 2005 Also,we are currently featured in this months Florida Realtor Magazine and on Planet Realtor. Click here to view article . ...featured on October 4th, 2005 "...Someone has to be the FIRST", and "...A Podcasting Pioneer", as stated by The South Florida Business Journal in their print edition from July 29th - August 4th, 2005 and YES THEY ARE WRITING ABOUT US!! CLICK HERE to read The South Florida Business Journal's ARTICLE on Podcast Realty™ as featured in BIZWOMEN.com Additional information about Podcast Realty™ and its creator and founder Zahara Mossman is available by clicking HERE . "Podcast Realty, your local podcast Realtors!"™ PODCAST REALTY™ Click HERE to listen and/or download free Zahara Mossman's latest e-book interviewed by Paul Pickering on Web 2.0, podcasting and more... Zahara Mossman RECS CLHMS Real Estate Cyber Specialist Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist Certified Internet Marketing ConsultantRealtor® Zahara Mossman, LLC Zahara Properties, LLC dba Podcast Realty® Founder/Managing Member a division of Beachfront Realty, Inc.310 Arthur Godfrey RoadMiami Beach, FL. 33140 e Zahara Mossman t 305.397.6977 USAt +506 8355.9669 Costa Rica Zahara Properties™ Podcast Realty® Seacoast Towers™ All listing information deemed accurate, but not warranted.Zahara's Headshot by Brignoll Photography ©copyright 2004-2008 Zahara Mossman, LLC . All Rights Reserved. You cannot use any of the images or content from this site without written permission. Zahara Properties® All listing information deemed accurate, but not warranted. Zahara's Headshot by Brignoll Photography ©copyright 2004-2008 Zahara Mossman, LLC . All Rights Reserved. You cannot use any of the images or content from this site without written permission. Podcast Realty Miami Beach Real Estate,Miami Beach, South Florida, Miami, luxury, property, Zahara, properties,Zahara Properties,beach front,Miami Beach Real Estate,Miami Real Estate,Bal Harbour Real Estate,Surfside Real Estate,Coconut Grove Real Estate,Miami Beach Realtor,Miami Beach Luxury condo,Miami Beach Water front homes,Miami Beach Condo Conversions,Miami Beach Preconstruction Condos,Miami Beach Investment Properties,South Florida Investment Properties,ocean view condos, multi-million dollar ocean estates Less

deals, acquisitions, Web 2.0 Gregory T. Huang wrote: Monster Venture Partners, based in Bellevue, WA, has acquired a controlling stake in BitWine, an online startup that lets users get expert advice and share knowledge. Former Expedia exec Ronnie Gurion has been named chief executive officer of Bitwine, and Rob Monster has joined as chairman of the board. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS Less

Internet, startups, Software Wade Roush wrote: Everyone has a neighbor or a relative who loves to throw parties—you know, the people who make their Halloween or Christmas extravaganza bigger every year, with more lights, lawn ornaments, costumes, and food. The folks at Punchbowl Software are a lot like that: they keep overhauling their Web 2.0 party-planning website MyPunchbowl, making it fancier and more useful. Today Punchbowl took the lid off the site’s biggest redesign yet. “Many of our features have gotten a facelift,” says CEO Matt Douglas, “and our home page has been redesigned for conversion”—that is, to entice more people to sign up as members and to use MyPunchbowl’s main features, which include a utility for negotiating a party’s date, a save-the-date notifier, party-supply checklists, and photo albums for after-party sharing. The user interfaces for all of these features have also been revamped, Douglas says. But the most prominent new feature is the online “Design Studio,” where hosts planning parties can create customized electronic invitations by choosing from a variety of clip-art options such as colorful backgrounds and ribbons. The company says the studio provides a “green” and “stylish” alternative to sending out paper invitations. And actually, the phrase “clip art” doesn’t do justice to the elegant designs Punchbowl has created as starting templates (click on the thumbnail at left for a closer look). It’s been a busy fall at Punchbowl—the company announced just three weeks ago that it had raised $2.1 million in a venture round by New York-based Contour Venture Partners and existing investors Intel Capital and eCoast Angels. Comments (1) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

deals, VC, Web 2.0 Wade Roush wrote: The eCoast Angel Network of Portsmouth, NH, and Boston Harbor Angels of Boston are among the participants in a $2 million funding round announced today for CollegeWikis. The New York-based startup, which provides e-mail lists and group-editable wikis for student-based organizations (and bears a passing resemblance to Cambridge, MA-based Wiggio), also attracted investments from HighBAR Ventures and Richmond Management. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Are Web 2.0 technologies growing in popularity among your students and faculty members? Are you wondering how to integrate them into teaching and learning in a meaningful way, while supporting them across your institution? Join us for an interactive session as we explore four critical issues about incorporating Web 2.0 into higher education: Web 2.0 and the 21st-century learner, pedagogy and support tools, faculty development possibilities, and institutional support. Less

Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte YouTube upgrades, Webby Awards, despinifying, restaurant podcast, Suzanne Vega, and more. News of the week: YouTube streamlines its video uploader, bumps size limits Webby Awards Opens Doors to Net Celebs Find “spin” on different websites Video of the week: Bo Burnham hits it big online and offline Podcast of the week: "The restaurant business" podcast Song of the Week: Suzanne Vega | Tom's Diner Audible pick of the week: The Guns of August, Unabridged, by Barbara W. Tuchman, Narrated by Nadia May. To sign up for a free book, visit Audible.com/night. Bandwidth for net@night is provided by AOL Radio. Running time: 45:49 Less

VC, funding, Software Wade Roush wrote: Waltham, MA-based Commonwealth Capital Partners is the lead investor in a $5 million Series A venture round for Tungle, a maker of free Web-based calendar groupware, the Montreal-based startup announced today. Existing investors JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital also contributed to the round, which will be used to—you guessed it—”accelerate the company’s marketing and engineering activities.” Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

startups, Software, facebook Wade Roush wrote: You get home from a big business trip to San Francisco, you’re talking with a friend from out of town, and you find out that he was just there too. If you’d known, you could have met up! It’s a common scenario—and it shouldn’t happen as often anymore. After all, you probably keep an electronic calendar that includes details about your upcoming trips. And most calendars these days allow you to share your appointment data with other people’s calendars, over the Web or corporate networks. There ought to be a central exchange where your calendar program can go to find out whether any of your friends (or colleagues, or potential clients or customers) are going to be in the same area as you at the same time. Well, now there is. It’s called LuckyCal, and it’s being built by a Lexington, MA-based startup that’s one of the first 10 companies to receive a grant from Facebook’ $10 million “fbFund.” Announced last year, the fbFund is run by Facebook with money from Accel Partners and The Founders Fund, and is designed to support independent developers working on applications for the Facebook Platform (the subject of my interview last week with Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin). LuckyCal got the largest possible grant from the fbFund: $250,000, to be doled out in installments as the startup meets usership milestones. But, while LuckyCal’s Facebook application is an important part of its offerings, you can use the service even if you don’t have a Facebook account, by giving it access to your dekstop- or Web-based calendars and address books and inviting friends to share their own data. LuckyCal’s matching algorithms suck in all this information, along with public event listings from sources such as Ticketmaster, and spit out what the company calls “lucky” events: confluences that you can then decide whether to act upon. Say you’re going to Minneapolis-St. Paul next weekend. LuckyCal might see from your address book that you have a cousin there, and suggest that you give her a call; and it might know from the interests you’ve listed on your LuckyCal profile that you love public radio, and send you a link to purchase tickets to a live broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion.” When I first heard about LuckyCal’s service, it reminded me of 1990s-era predictions about “intelligent agents” that would scour the Internet, making your travel arrangements, negotiating appointments, doing your holiday shopping, and the like. A full-blown agent would require a level of artificial intelligence that’s still way beyond what computer science can accomplish. But LuckyCal does something very similar, just by crunching together the standard data that can be extracted today from productivity applications like Outlook and iCal and Web platforms like Facebook and Gmail. It’s a no-brainer, in a way. But nobody had done it. “Calendars have been around for a very long time,” observes LuckyCal’s 37-year-old CEO and co-founder Sanjay Vakil, a Canadian-born entrepreneur and software architect who’s a veteran of local startups like Ambient Devices and PatientKeeper. “Electronic calendars have been around for a reasonably long time. And online calendars have been around for 8 to 10 years now. Yet nobody has tried to do this—to solve the simple problem of ‘Here’s where I’m going, show me what’s available while I’m there.” Facebook, where members are already eager to make connections, is an obvious place to try out the model—and so far, a couple hundred Facebook users have signed up for LuckyCal. But ultimately, Vakil sees the software as something that could go beyond the social-networking crowd to become a money-saving tool for big organizations whose employees travel regularly. The fbFund grant comes at a key moment, helping the startup get its idea working first in a friendly environment (and perhaps helping it to earn a bit of money on Ticketmaster commissions along the way). But long-term, Vakil says, the business model is more about licensing LuckyCal’s services to big corporate customers. Vakil says he’s been thinking about better ways to interact with event information for several years—ever since he worked at Ambient, a Cambridge, MA, startup that sells wireless information displays such as the Ambient Orb, which glows red or green according to the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Ambient Scorecast, which shows the progress of baseball games, hit by hit. (Vakil wrote the code for the latter device.) “LuckyCal came out of a meeting with David Rose,” Ambient’s director and chair, Vakil says. “We had this idea for the Ambient Clock—a device that would take calendar information and show it on an analog wall clock. If you had an appointment between 2:00 and 3:00 it would fill in that pie piece. But we looked at the data real people put into their calendars, and on average it’s only about one event per day. What do you do with the rest of the clock? Why not try to …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

VC, Investors, Computing Gregory T. Huang wrote: Bill McAleer and Enrique Godreau remind me of an old couple. They’ve been through the ups and downs together. They’ve raised three children (OK, venture funds) in the past 10 years. They even sometimes finish each other’s sentences. And together they’ve built Voyager Capital into one of the most forward-looking venture firms in town. First, some vital stats. Voyager Capital, based in downtown Seattle, has some $370 million under management. It raised its funds in 1998, 2000, and 2007. It does primarily early-stage deals across three main tech sectors: software and services, wireless, and digital media (including e-commerce, advertising, and marketing). It has a satellite office in Menlo Park, CA, and just opened a branch in Portland, OR, last month. Earlier this month, Voyager led an $8 million Series B investment in Los Gatos, CA-based Nusym, which makes software for verifying electronic designs. I had a chance to sit down with McAleer and Godreau last week to talk about Voyager’s strategy and how it fits in with important trends in the tech industry. They discussed some of their portfolio companies, but they also expounded on the broader theme of “connected computing” (sometimes called ubiquitous computing) and how the Seattle area is uniquely positioned as a tech-business center. They also touched on the effects of the current financial crisis on investment strategy, and how they view the broader future of venture capital. When McAleer and Godreau co-founded Voyager Capital in Seattle back in 1997, the tech world was a different place. Microsoft still ruled in software. The Web was just taking off, and Google didn’t exist yet. Amazon.com was just two years old. McAleer had come from Seattle-based Aldus (inventor of PageMaker) with a background in multimedia, and had his own firm for three years working with early-stage companies. Godreau had come from Gartner Group and Adobe by way of Xerox PARC; he was an early backer of Seattle-based aQuantive, which had a big IPO in 2000 and was bought by Microsoft for $6 billion last year. “We thought this region would take off as a tech region,” says McAleer. But there were a number of challenges. “When we first started, it was how to get really senior talent into the city,” says McAleer. “That’s changed a lot. But back in 1997, there were still only a couple of opportunities they could go off to if their startup failed. The cost to build is somewhat less here [than Silicon Valley], so there’s a cost advantage. The other challenge is to attract really top-notch sales and marketing talent. It’s still thin in terms of really qualified marketing people. On the plus side, with the connected computing trend, consumers are leading rather than businesses.” I’m a technical guy by training, so I wanted to hear more about this trend, and where the Seattle area fits in. McAleer explains connected computing as the “next stage of computing”—the next step in its evolution from mainframes, desktops, and PCs to the Web, Web 2.0, and smart mobile devices. As I see it, the proliferation of smartphones, social networking, and increased connectivity is changing the way people live, and is leading to all kinds of new applications for consumers and businesses. “We’re going through another sea shift in technology,” McAleer says. He continues, “The unique thing about Seattle is with the software, wireless, and digital media base… eventually we’ll be connecting at all times. Seattle is really well-positioned for the blend of all three… Most other tech areas don’t have the richness in anchor tenants and available talent. When we started investing, you’d see teams from one company. Now you see teams that are from a mix of companies. And around all that has grown up a capital infrastructure, supported by a strong university.” “This geography happens to have a lot of skills,” says Godreau. “With Linux in Portland, Nintendo and Xbox designed here, network and wireless companies here, and prominent retailers like Nordstrom, Costco, Starbucks. What happens when you combine those elements? You get the computing of the future. That distinguishes us from the Valley, …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Byte Podcast # 132 - Descarga directa En Byte Podcast 132 les traemos detalles del lanzamiento de un par de teléfonos móviles: el esperado G1 con Android en los Estados Unidos y el Nokia E71 en México. Les presentamos el primer corto de animación 3D por Wada, antiguo colaborador de este podcast. La Página de Poncho le enseña a los twitters qué tan populares son, y tenemos una importante entrevista con dos de los organizadores del Congreso México Web 2.0: Salomón Seoane y Armando Sosa. Cerramos como siempre con toda su retroalimentación. Continúa participando en nuestro sondeo para saber cuánto explotas tu teléfono móvil. Byte, tecnología aplicada… a la vida. Podcast 132. Duración: 31 minutos Enlaces: T-Mobile G1 (con Android de Google) Nokia E71 The Last Day, el corto de Wada. La Página de Poncho: twitter Grader WiPeer (enviada por Arnulfo Chavero) Congreso México Web 2.0 Eventos próximos: Web 2.0 para Ingenieros y Diseñadores, en Guadalajara, Jalisco. 30 de Septiembre. Congreso Estatal de Software Libre (con Richard Stallman), en León, Guanajuato. 29 y 30 de septiembre Simposium Internacional de Tecnología e Innovación en Mérida, Yucatán. Del 2 al 4 de Octubre. Congreso de Web 2.0 en Cancún, México. Noviembre 4 y 5. Calendario de eventos de tecnología de Byte Podcast Grabado y Producido en los estudios de Dixo.com Less

Byte Podcast # 132 - Descarga directa En Byte Podcast 132 les traemos detalles del lanzamiento de un par de teléfonos móviles: el esperado G1 con Android en los Estados Unidos y el Nokia E71 en México. Les presentamos el primer corto de animación 3D por Wada, antiguo colaborador de este podcast. La Página de Poncho le enseña a los twitters qué tan populares son, y tenemos una importante entrevista con dos de los organizadores del Congreso México Web 2.0: Salomón Seoane y Armando Sosa. Cerramos como siempre con toda su retroalimentación. Continúa participando en nuestro sondeo para saber cuánto explotas tu teléfono móvil. Byte, tecnología aplicada… a la vida. Podcast 132. Duración: 31 minutos Enlaces: T-Mobile G1 (con Android de Google) Nokia E71 The Last Day, el corto de Wada. La Página de Poncho: twitter Grader WiPeer (enviada por Arnulfo Chavero) Congreso México Web 2.0 Eventos próximos: Web 2.0 para Ingenieros y Diseñadores, en Guadalajara, Jalisco. 30 de Septiembre. Congreso Estatal de Software Libre (con Richard Stallman), en León, Guanajuato. 29 y 30 de septiembre Simposium Internacional de Tecnología e Innovación en Mérida, Yucatán. Del 2 al 4 de Octubre. Congreso de Web 2.0 en Cancún, México. Noviembre 4 y 5. Calendario de eventos de tecnología de Byte Podcast Grabado y Producido en los estudios de Dixo.com Less

Image via Wikipedia C’est le 3 octobre prochain à l’Eracom, Lausanne que se tiendra la suite du séminaire sur le Web 2.0 organisé dans cette école par le Forum Graphique Romand. Avec des des thèmes comme le tour d’horizon du Web 2.0, les outils, les avantages et les inconvénients du web 2.0. On pourra également voir l’utilisation des outils web 2 pour un projet graphique avec Mirko Humbert. L’internet et l’information mobile avec Xavier Bertschy de City Online. Et votre serviteur pour parler bien évidemment de Podcasting avec entre autre l’émission CulturePod.ch Toutes les infos et de quoi s’y inscrire ici seminaire web2, les infos a Séminaire sur le Web 2.0 à l’Eracom, Lausanne Visionner le site avec PicLens Less

Web Services, Online Advertising, WTIA Gregory T. Huang wrote: I’ve always thought “Web services” is a boring name for one of the most lucrative areas of tech-business innovation. The term encompasses many interactions on the Internet—everything from Web-based software to shopping to social networks. A big question these days is how to monetize these Web services, and how to get revenue from all the various Web 2.0 applications that have emerged. Sure, there are traditional business models based on advertising, subscriptions, and transaction commissions, but what are cutting-edge companies doing with these models? I had a feeling last night’s Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) event at the Westin Hotel in Bellevue, WA, would provide some unique answers—and I wasn’t disappointed. (The drinks and dinner, which I hadn’t expected, didn’t hurt either.) I’ll give a straight recap here, and try to follow up with more insights down the road. The title of the WTIA panel was “Cashing in on Web services: The display ad model and beyond,” and it packed an all-star lineup of Seattle-area Web companies. The moderator was Scott Jacobson, a principal at Madrona Venture Group. Perhaps the most striking thing about the panel was how young everyone looked (I’m starting to feel old around these entrepreneur types): —Matt Hulett, chairman and CEO of Mpire, maker of ad network WidgetBucks —Andy Liu, CEO of BuddyTV, the largest TV destination site —Mike Metzger, CEO of PayScale, the largest salary comparison site —Spencer Rascoff, CFO of Zillow, the second largest real-estate site —Tony Wright, co-founder of RescueTime, a time-management software site Jacobson opened with some brief remarks about online advertising versus other revenue models. “You have to have massive scale to build a business on advertising,” he said. “But there are other ways…to make money, and we’re going to explore those here.” Indeed, it was interesting to see the different approaches taken by the five companies, based on each one’s product and size. Mpire, though small in workforce (18 employees by the end of this year), has the sort of scale to make advertising work (1.2 billion impressions a month). Hulett explained his approach with WidgetBucks, an online ad network used by some 20,000 publishers, including many small bloggers, where the ads run alongside the content. “The state of online advertising is still in its infancy,” Hulett said. “The bar is pretty low right now. Publishers are looking for other solutions that monetize better than [Google] AdSense.” Jacobson asked whether advertising budgets are shifting away from display ads. “I don’t think anyone’s going to say online advertising is dead,” said Hulett. “There’s a little softness in display, but overall the area is strong.” Liu spoke a bit about BuddyTV’s traffic (over 30 million pageviews a month), content, and user behaviors. The site includes news, videos, and trivia games for TV fans. “We always wonder, when do people spend time on our site? Most of it comes during the workday,” he said, to laughter from the audience. “We always build two things into the products. …Next Page » Comments (1) | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

Web 2.0, Social Networking, Software Wade Roush wrote: It’s September in Boston, and that can only mean one thing—conferences, conferences, conferences. Xconomy’s own life sciences event was on Tuesday, and I spent most of the day yesterday at EmTech 08, the big annual tech-fest put on by MIT’s Technology Review magazine. One highlight was a lively panel led by Robert Scoble, renowned technology blogger and managing director of FastCompany.tv, about what comes after Web 2.0, as new standards for sharing and interoperability dissolve the traditional notion of the standalone website. These days Internet users are consuming, contributing, swapping, and remixing personalized information in ever-smaller snippets. Open interfaces, for example, mean that the updates you broadcast to your followers on Twitter can be immediately republished on your blog or your FriendFeed page, where your friends can also track everything from what photos you’re uploading to Flickr to what movies you’re renting from Netflix. Facebook, which was formed here in Cambridge by Mark Zuckerberg, then a Harvard undergrad, is one of the companies doing the most to drive this transition—and Dave Morin, Facebook’s senior platform manager, was one of Scoble’s four panelists. (The others were David Recordon of blogging platform provider Six Apart, Joseph Smarr of Comcast’s Plaxo division, and Nova Spivack, the CEO of Radar Networks and the creator of Twine.) “The first iteration of the Web was all about information—you were excited just to put a Web page up, and it was hard to understand who the people were who were interacting with all those pages,” Morin said during the discussion. “But now the Web is becoming more social. Through open APIs [application programming interfaces] we are exposing not just information but the actions and thoughts of the people using the Web. That’s what we’re driving toward—adding that ‘people’ layer to the Web.” I had a chance to talk with Morin one-on-one before he went on stage. I asked him to talk about the recent changes Facebook has implemented to make the site even more social—for example, by giving site users easier access to third-party applications and letting them communicate with their Facebook friends even when they’re not logged into Facebook itself. I also asked him to name a few of the third-party applications that he likes best—with a special focus, of course, on those developed by programmers in Xconomy’s home cities. Xconomy: Talk about some of the new features of the Facebook Platform. What are you doing to make it easier for outside developers to set up shop on Facebook? Dave Morin: In our recent redesign we included the ability for developers to share information in a more structured way. There is a new feature that we call Publisher up on the top of the wall on everyone’s page. Publisher enables you to add structured data into your feed, and that helps people to understand what’s going on in the world around them. [Specifically: from the Publisher area, users can quickly post status updates, photos, or videos to their profiles, or create tabs that take them directly to third-party applications.---WR] In addition, one of the innovations we’ve launched recently is called Facebook Connect. It makes this vision of making the Web more social a reality. It enables any site or device outside of Facebook to leverage pieces of Facebook to make these sites more social—including being able to take your Facebook identity with you. Inside Facebook, you’ve built up a lot of data about yourself, and with Facebook Connect you will be able to take that identity with you wherever you go, and bring your friends with you too. The third thing is that as you move about the Web and as the Web becomes more social, being able to tell your friends what you’re doing is something really powerful. So with Facebook Connect people [back on Facebook] will see the actions you’ve chosen to share from other sites on the Web.. It works on the same concept as Facebook applications inside Facebook, except that parties outside Facebook can leverage both the APIs that we already make available and a few new ones. For example, TheInsider.com is a site that CBS has put together that taps into Facebook Connect. [At this point Morin opened his MacBook Air and brought up the site.---WR] Since I’m already logged into Facebook, you can see that my Facebook profile pic is there, and my real name, and lot of people with accounts here are my friends already. If you scroll down to the bottom and add a comment, then that can be published as a story to your Facebook profile. You can imagine this happening anywhere—on any site where you contribute content or add comments, any blog or news site. If those sites are enabled with Facebook Connect then your friends will know about the interesting things you’re doing on those sites. X: One observation that’s frequently made about Facebook is that you guys seem to be trying to re-create a lot of the functions that are out there on the Internet, but within the walls of the Facebook.com—so people can have an Internet “experience” without really going out to the rest of the Internet. But Facebook Connect actually seems to be driving in the other direction—taking bits and pieces of Facebook and projecting them out onto the rest of the Web. DM: With Facebook Connect we want to enable Facebook users to go anywhere on the Web and take the pieces of Facebook with them that really enhance what they’re doing on those other sites. We know there are a lot of great sites and great businesses doing great things out there, and we know that Facebook users want to …Next Page » Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

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