web 2.0

Sun has organized a really cool event at their Menlo Park offices on March 19 in the evening - a discussion between Sun’s Timothy Bray and me on venture capital and Web 2.0. Registration is free.Please come and cheer me on. Tim is smarter than two of me put together, so I need audience support. [...]

Online reputation online is a fascinating area, partially because eBay, through their feedback score, is the only company to have reached scale. Startups like Rapleaf and iKarma are still young and struggling.Perhaps their flaw has been in taking the high road, and going out of their way to ensure that reputational feedback is being left [...]

Blake is at SXSW right now and trying to liveblog all the keynotes. He already blogged Phil Torrone doing his geekenwerk until PT and his friend Limor turned on a cellphone jammer and shut down his WAN card. Head over for some good coverage of a great event.SXSW 2007: Dan Rather KeynoteCrunch Network: CrunchGear [...]

Last year I wrote about PicksPal, a fantasy sports betting site where well over 100,000 members bet their friends and coworkers on the outcome of sporting events (and they just launched a nifty March Madness site as well). No money changes hands, but top users can win various prizes.It’s all for fun, but the company [...]

PicksPal, a fantasy sports betting site, is launching a March Madness game this morning.Picks are made via an Ajax interface by clicking on the winners through to the Final Four. Once you’ve selected winners for all of the games, you can invite friends to participate as well, and create a widget showing your picks to [...]

The WSJ is reporting (behind paywall) that Google is conducting a small scale test of television advertisements in the Northern California town of Concord (east of San Francsicso), and there are additional rumors that Google is close to signing a deal with Dish Network, a satellite television provider, to supply advertising to its television subscribers.The [...]

News site Spotback has created a new widget that lets blogs and other sites gather user ratings on each piece of content. The product has launched on a few test sites, and will be available for anyone who wants to use it soon.The original Spotback, like the ill fated Findory, is a customized news site [...]

I’m at SXSW, former TechCrunch writer Marshall Kirkpatrick is here as well and just tipped me off that for the past 14 hours, Flickr’s tag search hasn’t been displaying recently uploaded photos in search results. I just verified this by uploading my own photo and tagging it ’sxsw’. You can view the photo if you [...]

I’m at SXSW and Ben Brown, co-founder of CNET-owned Consumating, just announced that they will be releasing “every single line of code” for Consumating within the next month. Consumating is a dating and social networking website for “geeks” that CNET acquired back in December 2005.Ben said that the community is the true value of Consumating [...]

YouTube has removed all of the offending videos that led a Turkish court to order that YouTube be banned from the country earlier this week, and the ban has been lifted.This sets a terrible precedent for YouTube, who should have stood their ground. The original videos were sophomoric jabs at Turkey from Greeks, none of [...]