The Hard Man of 2.0, Ben Barren, takes out his nutcracker and starts crunching the numbers of Internet companies. Wielding financial methodologies, Ben intends to get some REAL analysis happening

Tristan Louis has compiled some excellent comparison charts of products across the Big 4 Internet companies - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL [nb: Tristan's site was down when I checked,

Interesting NY Times article about Yahoo!. Some key quotes: "The idea that human judgment can improve a search engine's automatic findings is hardly new. From the dawn of the Web's

In my ZDNet blog, Web 2.0 Explorer, I've launched an Indiana Jones-like quest to find the Great Disruptive Web 2.0 Start-Ups of our era. I'm on the hunt for two

Microsoft Emerging Business Team member Don Dodge has another thought-provoking post on Internet business. Don notes how so many innovative companies who were market leaders in the 90's have been

Uber classifieds site craiglist has requested that Oodle, a classifieds 'meta' search engine, refrain from scraping its content. This has the potential to be the first high-profile case of a

I'm sensing a backlash about the rising VC interest in Web 2.0. Mike Rundle takes aim at Flock in his post subtitled "The Leaning Tower of Buzz". He thinks Flock

To all those Web 2.0 companies looking to get acquired by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! or eBay, Don Dodge has handily compiled a list of tips. Don works on the Microsoft

The necessary components of a mash-up according to the panelists are AJAX or a similar client-side technology, APIs in the backend (or RSS and/or scraping if need be - although

Mary Meeker called where we're at now a "boom-let". We've gone from boom to bust to boom-let (presumably a precursor to the next boom). She thinks the first 10 years