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In exchange for a couple more short years of service, the founders of Feedburner.com have agreed to accept Google’s $100 million offer. A pretty sweet deal considering the early $10 million investments by Mobius Venture Capital, Portage Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Union Square Ventures.
It’s easy to build a case that video will continue to transform the online world, but a significant obstacle remains: an effective, comprehensive video search engine. Today’s Washington Post details the various efforts to champion this rich but technically-challenging opportunity.
A Pew Internet & American Life memo from last year predicted a “Silver Tsunami” in the next decade as aging Baby Boomers create a new wave of older Internet users. Cranky.com, which launched last week, aims to become their primary search tool.
With Thanksgiving nearing, I thought it was time to put together my Christmas wish list so Santa knows what to bring. Without further ado and in particular order, here is my 2006 Christmas list…
Web 2.0 is beginning to get really boring guys. How many to-do lists, note takers, calendars, virtual desktops, social networks, bookmarking and Digg-clones are we going to build? Yes, all of these things were really cool when it all started. Heck, I couldn’t get enough of it. But now every week brings an entire new batch of the same thing. Let’s see something new. I don’t think we can have Web 3.0 until Web 2.5 shows some truly amazing applications of the technology and ideas of Web 2.0.
Almost two months are still left to go in 2006, and Time has already conceded invention-of-the-year honors to YouTube. Considering the dazzling rise of this concept from start-up to one of the most popular sites on the Internet in just 18 months, the honor seems well deserved. YouTube, which recently sold to Google for $1.6 billion, is the ninth busiest site on the Internet (based on Alexa rankings) with a daily reach of over 65 million people.