Tittle-Tattle

This post on extremetech prompted me to list out web 2.0 sites. A good discussion on Web 2.0 is here - Online Video - YouTube , Google Video , Guba , Yahoo Video , metacafe Online Office - Writely , ThinkFree , NumSum , Zoho , Google Spreadsheet , AjaxWrite , Edit Grid Maps - Google Maps , Yahoo Maps , MSN maps I have realized by now that the site list will be endless... Let's focus more on categories - Personal p2p - Pando , Perenety , Wired Reach , Bit Torrent (A little different but still) Chatting - Skype, Yahoo, Gtalk, live Online Aggregators - NetVibes , Google Reader, My Yahoo, google.com/ig, live.com Bookmarking - Delicious , StumbleUpon Photo Sharing - flickr , webshots, Yahoo photos , Riya (Photo Search) Social Networking - myspace, orkut, linkedin, facebook, friendster (this guy won the patent for social networking), hi5 and so on. Blogs Blogging - Blogger , Six Apart(typepad, livejournal) , Word Press Bloggers - There is a league built up on the net, of bloggers wit...

Read this at Om Malik's , who in turn is quoting Robert Young's article in wired magazine who in turn is quoting what Rupert Murdoch is claiming ;-). The story goes like this - Google could have bought MySpace for $290m which Rupert Murdoch later bought for $580m. Now MySpace creates lots of search traffic which in turn contributes to around 8% of google's incoming traffic which in turn means $400m for google in terms of annual revenue. And now MySpace wants to put their search business on auction on per year revenue share basis. So google may have to lose out a big chunk of that $400m every year. Now, I remember participating in some survey by Yahoo where they indicated about doles to be given out if the participants use Yahoo search as the default. It hadn't worked, at least for me (how do you show that smiley with tongue wagging!). Google is now an addiction for me and I am sure for many others. Like on Mondays and Tuesdays, nobody needs to remind me now to wear a t...