It’s becoming a favorite pasttime to compile lists of people’s most favorite webapps, and most of those start with flickr, del.icio.ius and the other usual suspects. My colleague Tom just pointed me to this article which lists a few well known apps, but also introduces some lesser known but very inetresting ones. Worth a […]
Archive for December, 2005
Top 10 list and Alexa’s API
December 15th, 2005
DealWatch: Some Getgo.de guys go at it again
December 13th, 2005
Congratulations to Sven Schmidt and Daniel Groezinger! I just got the news from them that they have secured funding for their new venture. In their announcement they say their offering will “offer significant added value compared to existing competitors GelbeSeiten.de, 11880.com, Klicktel.de and GoYellow.de“. It will do so by combining yellow page/directory asisstance services […]
Web 2.0 Map
December 12th, 2005
My favorite little watchlist called populicio.us just alerted me to an interesting article on Web 2.0 (Wikipedia entry). Oftentimes, people ask about what makes an Internet product or service part of Web 2.0, and these days it’s often unclear whether they would consider that a good or bad thing, given some of the hype […]
del.icio.us acquired by Yahoo
December 9th, 2005
Yes, del.icio.us has been acquired by Yahoo: See Joshua’s announcement.
Congratulations to Joshua and the great team at del.icio.us for building what I consider to be by far the best social bookmarking service. Given Yahoo’s proven ability to make innovative services and apps like flickr available to a broad audience on the web while maintinaing the […]
DealWatch
December 6th, 2005
I just caught up on checking deal flow, and here are some Euro deals I found interesting over the last 10 days or so:
General Atlantic Partners invests in German Navigon - seems like navigation systems, GPS and the like are a really hot space right now
Meshcom out of Finland raised money from Nordic Capital. Let’s […]
At Les Blogs in Paris
December 5th, 2005
Just arrived at the Les Blogs conference in Paris today. There are great people here…
People are having fun here pulling up pages relating to the speakers on screen, and comparing their “Google popularity”: Check out www.googlefight.com
If you’ve got a blog, you can instantly quantified by technorati, googlefight, your del.icio.us tags and all these things…
Del.icio.us Firefox Extension
December 2nd, 2005
I am getting to this a bit late, but I downloaded the del.icio.us Firefox extension. The most visible feature are the “my del.icio.us” and “tag” buttons…no more icon-less bookmarklets. You’ll also find a del.icio.us search in the Firefox search dropdown. Cool stuff!
Here’s the del.icio.us help page on it.
Full disclosure: del.icio.us is a portfolio company of […]
Craigslist: Three billion pageviews every month….
December 2nd, 2005
I guess I am writing too much about Craigslist, but this article in Fortune quotes some inetresting numbers:
Ten million Craigslist users click on an estimated 6.5 million classified postings each month at 190 local sites in 35 countries, generating three billion page views. Craigslist is also mind-bogglingly small. It has just 18 employees and no […]
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