In reading articles, over and over again I would come to this word: Community. The purpose of Craig’s list is to create an online community for swapping items, ideas, job opportunities, etc.. In the mid 90s, founder Craig Newmark would give talks about the internet, saying that “this is how we should do business someday.” [...]

Pageonce defines itself as the first “personal internet assistant.” Everytime people go to their computers, they generally start out by checking a myriad of different sites. (The weather, stock prices, facebook, checking accounts, and the most recent political news, for example). Pageonce tries to simplify this process by allowing the user to see all those [...]

Well perhaps not quite; Youtube is, however, opening the doors for the transfer of valuable and helpful information. A series of “educational” videos were posted in the past year on how to deal with children with autism and other special cases. Youtube can also prove to be helpful with news clips, political videos, and even [...]

I recently read an article about user-generated Digg.com being up for sale again (after nearly selling to Yahoo! back in 2006) and this time hiring influential investment bankers at Allen & Co. to search out prospective buyers. They would be aiming for nearly $300 million dollars, although speculation shows that they may now be contemplating [...]

Bizarre. Trying to grasp the concept of Philip Rosedale’s Second Life is quite akin to grappling with the mind-boggling concept of life in Alduous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World. The success of Second Life – attracting approximately 10,000 new members daily – seems to prove Huxley’s point of artificial happiness. As the windows provided [...]

Not only does Kiva offer information about the lender, exchange of money and field partners, but the organization also allows you to see the profiles of the other lenders. Thus building on the idea of community that we’ve already discussed. In addition, they have a website – kivafriends - which allows lenders to communicate with one [...]

As of this past December, Google led the market in online searches with 58% market share while #2 and #3, Yahoo! and MSN, respectively, held a 33% share. Thus, last Friday Microsoft revealed a deal to Yahoo! that CEO Steve Ballmer claims would make a stronger #2 to fight Google’s potential monopoly. The bid was [...]

Nine years ago, I was astonished and confused to hear that friends of ours had purchased both a boat and a car online on some “new” website called Ebay. Little did I know, Ebay had already been up and running for at least three and a half years. Nowadays, you can buy just about anything and [...]

Facebook – a multi-million dollar social network – was created with the chief aim of “helping people understand their world.” – or so says Mark Zuckerberg, the 22 year old mastermind and CEO. It began as an experiment at Harvard, Zuckerberg’s Alma Mater, and then expanded to all American colleges. Nowadays, aside from being over [...]