Google has just announced a new service called Google App Engine. “Google App Engine enables [developers] to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” Basically GAE is a scalable web application back-end with a nice API. So what does this mean for web startups?1 Because web startups commonly have an [...]
“Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google [and] Yahoo.” —Wikipedia. Not only does Technorati allow for blog searching, they have their own rating system called “authority” which is analogous to Google’s PageRank. Authority is a function of how many incoming links a blog has. High authority is critical to finding [...]
An online web persona is essentially a collection of online personal effects: web pages, profiles, and accounts. It’s important to have a well maintained web persona for a few reasons: to be easily discovered by potential employers, to build connections, and to be easily contacted. I try to saturate search results for my name with [...]
Internet Business Models Companies have been so accustom to their business models that when the Internet really exploded, people were forced to decide which way to go. Companies either jumped on the band wagon and tried to radically change their business models to accommodate the Internet or, they tried to completely pass on the “fad.” [...]
Targeted Ads Web2.0 has basically boiled down to one business model: users receive free services in exchange for personal information which then drives targeted ads Google took this almost non-existent targeted ads business model and made it into The Business Model of the decade. Google is trying to acquire the online ad agency Double-Click, Microsoft [...]