Archive for June 22nd, 2007

Community and businesses »

Wetpaint and Wikia allow people to set up communities around a particular subject. Wikis or other community-oriented sites that foster participation and information sharing work very well for businesses that are consumer facing. The best case scenario is one where the company does not even need to set up such a service. Rather, [...]

Can Yahoo-Ebay merger give the much needed competition for Google? »

The rumor mill is busy spinning out various merger/acquisition options for Yahoo. Starting with Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo to Yahoo’s discussions with Facebook to News Corp’s attempt to control Yahoo by throwing the bait of Myspace to Yahoo-Ebay merger. Some of them are good for Yahoo while others are bad in the long term perspective. [...]