The portal wars 2.0
In the bubble days of the Web, the game was all about aggregating eyeballs. AOL, Excite, Yahoo, Snap!
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Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Andrew Nusca
Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
Rachel King
Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
Latest Posts
U.S. cybersecurity due for calamity?
It's safe to say that a large-scale cybersecurity calamity will occur, just as hurricanes, earthquakes and terrorist attacks torment the people of the planet earth. Mini security calamities hit computers almost every day in the form of worms and other vulnerabilities.
Sergey Brin unplugged at Web 2.0
I already blogged Sergey Brin's comments on the possibility of a Google office productivity suite. Here are some other quotes from his interview with John Battelle at Web 2.
Sergey Brin: No office suite...for now
Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a guest appearance at the Web 2.0 conference.
Google RSS Reader rolls out
At the Web 2.0 conference Google took the wraps off its RSS reader--Google Reader.
Productivity applications tower over search's role in generating new revenues
It would make Google's current revenue model highly extensible beyond search, and remake the multi-billion-dollar business-to-business advertising and direct marketing industries.
Craig Burton cries 'ubiquity'
At Novell, Craig Burton was one of the driving forces behind the modern notion of a network as a collection of services rather than a collection of wires. He's a master at seeing the big picture and identifying the limitations of particular strategies within that picture.
Google-Sun mash up, Web 2.0 and more (The Dan & David Show)
In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss the Google-Sun mash and I tell tales from my excursion at the Web 2.0 conference, where Google was a persistent elephant in the room, Microsoft execs sketched out its 2.
AOL renames itself 'AOL'
During an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said that AOL was changing its official name from America Online to "AOL," solving the problem of taking the brand internationally without offending those countries that don't want to have an America Online in their midst.
The idea of less as a competitive advantage
Jason Fried, founder of lightweight, Web-based applications maker 37signals, offered his five-point formula for software development success to the audience at the Web 2.0 conference.