I just had some fun creating and playing around with Harvard’s H2O Playlist. H20 Playlist is a social bookmark site, in which users share lists of readings and other content about a topic of “intellectual interest”.
I was able to create a playlist of Web 2.0 information, which I am able to share with others. I can also browse other’s related links and topics.
Pretty cool, but nothing you can’t do with del.icio.us…
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Word on TechCrunch is that Tagged.com has raised its own $15 million round, on a $102 million pre-money valuation.
Tagged is also profitable, and adding more new users per day than MySpace.
With this kind of money being thrown at Social Networking sites there are bound to be even more and more of them getting developed. As if there weren’t plenty of them already. : )
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In the tradition of Craigslist, Real People Real Stuff lets people sell their stuff or services online. The twist however, is that RealPeopleRealStuff lets you list via video. An interesting concept but still in it’s very infant stage. A quick check of photos & art for sale brought up a listing for an attorney. So policing the postings is needed. I also don’t know how easy it’s going to be for Ma and Pa to record and upload a video. Instead of just heading to Craigslist and typing a quick description of the vacuum cleaner they want to sell and having it appear in under five minutes.
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When I look at a list like this, I sometimes wonder when Google will begin spinning off it’s parts into separate publicly traded companies. Although it’s advertising is still the #1 money maker for the company, it could get a lot of interest in it’s other parts. Such as making it’s search team a spin off, or maybe even Blogger or YouTube. Monopoly is another factor, as was the case when Ma Bell had to break into a bunch of baby bells due to it’s telco monopoly.
Microsoft and Yahoo are already complaining that Google is monopolizing the advertising space online, and they would like nothing better than to see Google broken apart.
Either way I have a feeling that Google will spin off it’s divisions in a few year. That is if it can keep up the pace, dominating every internet company on the web.
InviteShare was recently put up for sale at Sitepoint, and sold to TechCrunch. I think InviteShare is a great idea, with the amount of beta invitation only sites out there and all. However as a revenue generating website, I have my doubts. I suppose with TechCrunch behind it, it is certainly going to get lots of traffic, and it will enhance TechCrunch’s already fantastic website. As a stand alone site though? I don’t blame the owner for selling it. Seems like a lot of work with little financial reward.
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