With Google releasing 100,000 invites to test the beta version of the much-hyped Wave, one enterprising blogger decided to capitalize on all the buzz surrounding the new messaging and collaboration tool by selling his invite on eBay.
Vitaminwater ventured into the world of crowdsourcing Tuesday with the launch of a new Facebook application in which users compete to create the energy drink’s newest flavor, even down to the bottle design, to the tune of a $5,000 prize.
Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired, believes in logic the way Tina Brown believes in buzz.
The “Web toy” is hot. Who cares how Twitter will make money?
The battle over Yahoo’s search business as witnessed over the last few days seems both ridiculous and petty. And it takes the attention away from what is Yahoo’s true value: a media aggregation platform. Yahoo is the place a lot of people — some 400 million — visit to get their news, sports scores and email. I have always liked that business, and yesterday I experienced, first-hand, the enormous strength of Yahoo.
Twitter, the eponymously named San Francisco company, and our favorite narcissistic pursuit, may not have a business model, but it surely has the buzz. Whether it is their new round of funding or their inability to keep the service running–the blog world loves to twitter about Twitter.
We have seen it so many times: Any new service from Yahoo, however good or different it may be from others in functionalities, will never be able to shake off the catching-up-on-the-joneses tag. Such is the case with two new services Yahoo is launching today.
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