Comments for del.icio.us 1.5M users, Amazon Q4, Digg's War on Gaming, WSJ on Start Pages, Web Profile Aggregators

del.icio.us 1.5M users, Amazon Q4, Digg's War on Gaming, WSJ on Start Pages, Web Profile Aggregators

2007-02-02T11:23:30Z

A summary of the main Web Tech news today...

- del.icio.us now has 1.5 million users, according to the official blog; Also talks about doing "more meaningful joint development work" with its parent company Yahoo, including re-doing the UI.

- Amazon Q4 Announcements; sales up 34% including "for the first time, non-Media dollar growth [e.g. electronics] exceeded Media dollar growth"; also interesting notes about endless.com, their experimental shoe and handbag website, and a 55% increase in developers registered to use Amazon Web Services (now over 220,000 developers). See also ZDNet's analysis.

- Digg continues the War On Gaming; Kevin Rose says they are removing the Top Diggers list and are also aiming to improve social networking via interests (i.e. topics).

- WSJ profiles Netvibes, Pageflakes; Walt Mossberg concludes that "Netvibes -- and competitors like Pageflakes -- will give My Yahoo a run for its money. They provide an easy way to cut through the clutter of information that confronts us all." It'll be interesting to see if Yahoo develops its own personalized start page, or whether they'll acquire Netvibes or Pageflakes...

- The Web Profile Aggregators; Frank Gruber has a great post outlining all the Web identity aggregators - and there are a lot of them! Frank recommends Spokeo, but he has good things to say about most of them.

Comment from Emre Sokullu on 2007-02-02

2007-02-02T12:51:21Z

all bigcos showed great performance in the last quarter. This is really good news for the entire industry.

Comment from eoecho | Greg Magnus on 2007-02-02

2007-02-02T14:24:40Z

Amazon's addition of "aStore" really improved a bloggers ability to make a few extra bucks. After adding an aStore link to my AMG Mercedes-Benz blog the traffic increase was significant for my affiliate account - and I even made a few bucks to boot.

Comment from smorty71 on 2007-02-02

2007-02-02T16:37:16Z

I didn't really see Frank recommend one site over another in his round-up of Web Profile Aggregators. He said:

"In looking at all the options, I found Spokeo to be the most interesting web profile aggregator. Profilactic offered the best looking user interface and I liked the way it creates a sharable ‚Äúreal-time‚Ä? mashup of all of your profiles. Lijit‚Äôs layout and network search emphasis offers great utility..."

I think he was careful to point out the highlights in all of them without declaring one the "winner."