Microsoft has added newsfeeds, social graphs, etc. to Live.

Quoted: Microsoft's Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted ...

I am curious how the Facebook's costs & revenues compare to those of LinkedIn. LinkedIn makes money both from advertising and innovative premium services (that they have identified by segmenting and studying their various user segments).

Quoted: It costs a couple of hundred million dollars a year just to keep the lights on at Facebook. But the real problem is keeping up with growth, particularly storage needs. Add another $100 million or more per year for capital expenditures, and you’ve got a company that’s doing exactly the opposite of printing money.

Quoted: Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge ...

A great list of essays, especially if you are involved in anything in the consumer Web space.

On an unrelated note, I like how he includes his name and Twitter id in the blog title.

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I agree. The FB and OpenSocial application platforms open up tremendous opportunities for social asynchronous gaming (think Scrabulous)

Quoted: Making the gameplay asynchronous fits better with the “continuous partial attention” world that we increasingly live in. The reason I never became a hard core gamer is that the serial monogamy requirements (one game at a time, total dedication, long periods of gameplay coordinated with others) doesn’t mesh well with my lifestyle. Scrabulous is a better match for the “play a little bit when you have some time, at various points throughout the day” life that many of us lead.

Quoted: The IPL Fan Club, a social network built around Indian Premiere League Cricket, recently launched, and it is gaining users quickly.

Quoted: A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This ...

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