SiteBoat » Strategy http://siteboat.com Internet Entrepreneurship and Web 2.0... Fri, 28 May 2010 06:38:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Apple Passes Microsoft as The World’s Most Valuable Tech Company http://siteboat.com/apple-passes-microsoft-as-the-worlds-most-vsluable-tech-company/ http://siteboat.com/apple-passes-microsoft-as-the-worlds-most-vsluable-tech-company/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 07:09:48 +0000 Erdem OZKAN http://siteboat.com/?p=2921

On 25th of May, Apple passed Microsoft, for the first time, as the “world’s most valuable technology company” . Apple gained a stock-based…

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Paul Buchheit is the mastermind behind Google’s Gmail and AdSense, and founder of FriendFeed (now part of Facebook). As one of the earliest…

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In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Reddit Founder & Entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian tells the real-life fable of one…

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I can’t write valuable posts for a long time because of our ongoing projects and my full time job (In fact, there are…

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Gov2SummitThe first ever Gov 2.0 Summit was held in Washington,DC; in September 2009. The summit brought together…

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Aaron Patzer’s personal finance manager Mint is one of the best examples for building a successful company from nothing. Aaron…

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Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world’s expression — and gives us a glimpse of the soul…

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There’s a battle emerging over the industry structure of e-books: Amazon has one approach, Barnes & Noble another. Will the clash play out…

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twitter_logoWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real…

]]> http://siteboat.com/video-how-twitter-can-make-history/feed/ 0 Google Wave: Ten Links To Learn About Google’s New Platform http://siteboat.com/google-wave-ten-links-to-learn-about-googles-new-platform/ http://siteboat.com/google-wave-ten-links-to-learn-about-googles-new-platform/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 06:54:44 +0000 Erdem OZKAN http://siteboat.com/?p=2146

google_wave_logoGoogle’s new service, Google Wave is generating so much buzz and everyone really wants to learn more about Google Wave. Thousands of articles and blog…

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youtube_tvThere’s no doubt that YouTube is the biggest player in online video industry. YouTube outperformed its competitors and has become a winner in…

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Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.…

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You can’t go a day without mention of the “credit crunch” in the media.  Everyday, new companies goes bust and the unemployment numbers…

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key-successWeb 2.0 started as a revolution that uses the web to link people together. Web 2.0 means communicating, sharing, discussing and trading online…

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google_ventures_logoGoogle finally launched its venture capital fund. Google Ventures welcomes startups from a broad range of industries; including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and…

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(This post is co-authored with Web2INC Magazine)

The most stressful phase of a business is its start-up phase.…

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twitter_logo_125x29After the dot-com (Web 1.0) bust, financing a web site wasn’t easy. But when we met Web 2.0, the Internet usage started to…

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music20logosMusic is one of the indispensable part of our lives. As the internet gets accessible to more people, the number of legal and…

]]> http://siteboat.com/music-20/feed/ 1 Angelsoft’s Upgrade and 2008 Statistics http://siteboat.com/angelsofts-upgrade-and-2008-statistics/ http://siteboat.com/angelsofts-upgrade-and-2008-statistics/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:34:14 +0000 Erdem OZKAN http://siteboat.com/?p=1463

As i mentioned in an old post before, Angelsoft is…

]]> http://siteboat.com/angelsofts-upgrade-and-2008-statistics/feed/ 1 AMEE, Your Carbon Footprint Calculator http://siteboat.com/amee-your-carbon-footprint-calculator/ http://siteboat.com/amee-your-carbon-footprint-calculator/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:09:02 +0000 Erdem OZKAN http://siteboat.com/?p=1365

AMEE is London, UK based startup that aims to enable the calculation of the carbon footprint of everything. AMEE is a web 2.0 service and…

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