Internet Business

Mary Meeker's Annual State of the Internet - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

Web 2.0 Summit High Order Bit -Mary_Meeker Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Business Economics marymeeker web2summit Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker just took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit and is presenting her information-rich slides. I've put a copy up on Scribd for all to view. The video of her talk will be up shortly....

Publish Date: November 05, 2008

A deeper dive into Do-Not-Track - O'Reilly Radar

By Alex Howard

The FTC has released a new online privacy report that could reshape advertising, media and business on the Internet. A key element of the report is the creation of a

Publish Date: December 02, 2010

Working Together to Create a National Learning Community - O'Reilly Radar

By Linda Stone

National Lab Day is a National Barn-Raising for hands-on learning. Using the internet and social computing technologies, with the support of the White House, and the business and scientific communities, National Lab Day reaches out to the education community, providing a tool set that brings context, community, and passion to education, and that has the potential to transform our educational system into a true learning community.

Publish Date: January 04, 2010

Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan - O'Reilly Radar

By Mike Loukides

I've puzzled over Google's Fiber project ever since they announced it. It seemed too big, too hubristic (even for a company that's already big and has earned the right to hubris) -- and also not a business Google would want to be in. But the FCC's announcement of their plans to widen broadband Internet access in the US puts Google Fiber in a new context. The FCC's plans are cast in terms of upgrading and expanding the network infrastructure. That's a familiar debate, and Google is a familiar participant. This is really just an extension of the

Publish Date: March 16, 2010

Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden - O'Reilly Radar

By David Recordon

A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can't communicate or share content or friends across networks; put simply this is what keeps a Facebook user from being able to send a message to a MySpace user. This is the same model that destroyed AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy's ISP businesses when normal people chose the Internet itself versus their thoughtfully curated walled gardens.

Publish Date: March 04, 2009

Radar Interview with Clay Shirky - O'Reilly Radar

By Joshua-Michéle Ross

Clay Shirky is one of the most incisive thinkers on technology and its effects on business and society. I had the pleasure to sit down with him after his keynote at the FASTForward '09 conference last week in Las Vegas. In this interview Clay talks about the effects of low cost coordination and group action, where to find the next layer of value when many professions are being disrupted by the Internet, and the necessary role of low cost experimentation in finding new business models.

Publish Date: February 16, 2009

Report: Wall Street Journal Grabbing High-End Ads from New York Times - ...

By Peter Brantley

Silicon Alley Insider and others are reporting on Bloomberg's notice that the Wall Street Journal is grabbing high-end luxury advertising revenue from the New York Times: As if the New York Times wasn't having enough trouble keeping up with an ad recession and the Internet crushing its print business. Now the newspaper is facing increasing competition for print ad...

Publish Date: November 21, 2008

Could a Young Newspaper Company Still Succeed? - O'Reilly Radar

By Mac Slocum

The Internet is usually fingered as the key disruptor for newspapers, but could change also come from leaner, smaller and younger print publications? James Erik Abels mulls this over at Forbes.com The newspaper industry's cost structure, staffing and share price are based on an outdated business model that continues to define financial expectations. So the goal would be to slough...

Publish Date: October 27, 2008

New Release 2.0: Living in Code - O'Reilly Radar

By Jimmy Guterman

Today we're publishing the new issue of Release 2.0. What follows is drawn from my editor's letter in this issue. If you read anything this month other than this issue of Release 2.0, make it Jonathan Zittrain’s Saving the Internet in the June Harvard Business Review. (Disclosure: I do some work for HBR’s parent company.) So lively you might be...

Publish Date: June 19, 2007

Bill Gross is into Atoms - O'Reilly Radar

By Tim O'Reilly

I was interested to get my latest copy of Business 2.0 magazine (apparently the final) and see an article about long-time internet entrepreneur Bill Gross's new focus:

Publish Date: October 08, 2007

GreenLeaf: A Virtual Farmer's Market - O'Reilly Radar

By Marc Hedlund

Via Growers & Grocers, this is interesting: The Internet-based business, Greenleaf LLC, gets under way this summer. [...] Greenleaf could be a virtual farmer's market that never closes. Local farmers will be able to post what they have to sell, such as fresh produce and meats. Buyers will be able to browse through the offerings and make online purchases from...

Publish Date: June 17, 2006