TechCrunch50: Show me the money

(Credit: CNET / Josh Lowensohn)
SAN FRANCISCO–The world of Web 2.0 has been criticized for being too much about the nifty ideas and not enough about raking in the dough. So there were likely more than a few sets of ears in the audience on Monday at TechCrunch50 that perked up at the start of the [...]

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Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites

It wasn’t long ago that to be a credible participant in social media one only had to have a decent blog and keep it updated fairly regularly.  The rise of social media was an astonishing and novel enough development that most people still don’t blog today, despite the enormous influence that blogging and other forms [...]

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Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term

While it’s no longer quite so fashionable to label your Internet startup a “Web 2.0″ company these days, the popularity of the term remains extraordinarily high and is presently used today both far and wide in traditional media and social media.  The Google Trends graph in the figure to the right tells the overall story; [...]

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