The following 9 very useful websites that provide services such as browser based chat (meebo.com), sells cool gadgets for cheap (woot.com), selling handmade things (etsy.com) and more. There were still some extremely useful websites that were left out, so webupon.com wrote a continuation article to cover these sites.
“Think of a name, any name, and it’s probably already registered as a .com domain. Most sites blocking your path to a memorable and descriptive names are owned by domain squatters, businesses buying domain names in bulk and running targeted advertisements from Google and Yahoo!.”
Revision3 has close to $1M in financing from a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, and Greylock Partners, a VC firm that has backed the start-ups Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Digg.
It is trying to capitalize on the rapid growth of Internet video. The company is built around a series of video podcasts.
With Internet-like speed, blogs have gone from self-indulgent hobbies to flourishing businesses. Real businesses, with real revenue streams from real advertisers, not overhyped next big things. Some of the most popular blogs, long the bane of the mainstream media, are now themselves becoming mainstream.
Speaking at the Building Blocks conference in San Jose today, Digg founder and chief architect Kevin Rose described his site as a “crazy madhouse of news flying around, 100 percent user powered.”
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“The best I can tell you is Digg as a concept can be applied to other content aside from news. Just wait and see what we are going to apply it to.”
A new website has launched for programmers, designers, web entrepreneurs and content writers to find each other and work together to create websites and web applications.
Business Week’s write up of Kevin Rose, his “rock star” status, and Digg.com’s rise to fame. Today, Digg, Version 3, the one that would go beyond tech news to include politics, gossip, business, and videos, was going live. At 29, Rose was on his way either to a cool $60 million or to total failure.
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