With 2011 drawing to a close and 2012 just around the corner, businesses may be a little worried about what the New Year holds for them. Indeed, many are predicting that 2012 will be a difficult year. Due to the ongoing economic crisis in Europe and ongoing worries about a double-dip recession, it should be obvious that these worries are well-founded. However, with a little preparation and understanding of successful business and marketing strategies, you will weather 2012 like a champ, and you may even flourish a little.

So what can I do?

The first thing to remember is to not, under any circumstances, freak out about these predictions. This may lead to a decrease in spending and fewer new hires, which will play right into these naysayers’ diabolical plans. Indeed, a recently released report by a group of University of Massachusetts economists suggests the current unemployment crisis could be solved if America’s largest banks and non-financial companies would cough up some of the $3.6 trillion in cash that they have been hoarding over the last few years.

“There is no reason that the US needs to remain stuck in a long-term unemployment crisis, Robert Pollin, lead author of the report and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute, said in a statement. “Getting the banks and corporations to move their hoards into productive investments and job creation requires carrots and sticks—policies such as a new round of government spending stimulus as well as taxes on the banks’ excess reserves—that can both strengthen overall market demand and unlock credit markets for small businesses.”

Okay, what next?

After you are able to breathe a sigh of relief and stop worrying about things over which you have no control, it’s time to focus on the things that you do have control over, in order to strengthen your company and ensure that your year is productive and profitable.

Like it or not, the Internet is here to stay. The stats from this past Cyber Monday only serve to prove that this medium is not only highly effective for marketing, but that it can literally make the difference between a successful year and one that is not-so-successful. Learn to use every aspect of the Internet, in order to gain a toehold in the virtual marketplace.

And how exactly do I go about doing that?

Here are five places on the Internet where you should focus your attention in order to have a stellar 2012.

1. Social media sites, which were originally dismissed as being a frivolous waste of time, have really helped small businesses. Not only do they offer consumers a way of spreading the word about your business in a new-fangled word-of-mouth manner, but some sites like Facebook now offer advertising. If you were going to plan a weekend trip to the Windy City and were looking at Chicago hotels and events for your itinerary, would you choose one that you had never heard of, or go with the one that your Great Aunt Rhoda raved about on her Twitter account? You get my point.
2. Blogs are important, whether they are your own or someone else’s. By starting your own blog, you give consumers an insight into your business, and also open the floor for discussion and/or constructive criticism about what’s working and what’s not. By reading others’ blogs—particularly “mommy blogs” and those sites geared toward consumers—you are able to hear what consumers are saying, in their own words, and can strategize accordingly.
3. Google is more than just a way to pass the time or find directions to the theatre. By using white hat SEO tactics, you can increase your site’s visibility and brand recognition; this is done by raising you in the search results, which equates to more revenue for your company. The key is to learn everything there is to know about white-hat SEO and Google’s various algorithmic updates, in order to avoid angering the Google gods (hint: think relevant, quality content over spammy junk).
4. As I previously mentioned, Google and Facebook now offer advertising that is affordable and far more efficient than traditional advertising methods. In addition, email marketing is the new way of targeting consumers that doesn’t involve wasted paper, expensive postage, and annoyed consumers. Each of these methods is better able to target the specific demographic that you desire than previous methods.

Learn everything you can about web design and HTML code. This way, you can create an aesthetically-pleasing, intuitive site that will lure customers in and keep them there. There are multiple guides on the Internet for doing this, or you can hire a professional. Whatever your choice, be sure that your site is always at its best.

It’s been more than four years since Apple introduced the iPhone at the end of June, 2007. iPhone wasn’t the world’s first smartphone, but it totally flipped the mobile industry upside down. Since then, smartphones have evolved from an expensive luxury to a common tool. After iPhone, Google’s Android came and powered other manufacturers against Apple and has helped smartphone market grow. But as much as the mobile industry has grown and changed since then, it’s just getting started. In 2011, the mobile space saw profound growth and a vast array of new wireless innovations and services emerge.

Nielsen’s “State of the Media: The Mobile Media Report” provides a snapshot of the current mobile media landscape and audiences in the U.S. and highlights the potential power of mobile commerce in the near future. So what’s coming? Matt Galligan, co-founder of SimpleGeo says “In my opinion, the ‘future of mobile’ is the ‘future of everything’ “ .

Key findings From The Report:

• The majority of 25-34 and 18-24 year olds now own smartphones (64% and 53% respectively);
• The majority of smartphone owners (62%) have downloaded apps on their devices and games are the top application category used in the past 30 days;
• The number of smartphone subscribers using the mobile Internet has grown 45 percent since 2010;
• 87 percent of app downloaders (those who have downloaded an app in the past 30 days) have used deal-of-the-day websites like Groupon or Living Social;
• Younger groups text the most. In Q3, teens 13-17 sent and received the most text messages (an average of 3,417 each month).

In my opinion, the future of mobile will largely be defined by creative entrepreneurs and companies that leverage the device capabilities in new and interesting ways. The next few years will be about thinking of the phone as a networked sensor. New technologies like NFC and GPS on phones and applications like Foursquare and Square will shape the future of Mobile.

We expect to see huge growth in the Smartphone and Mobile markets in the next years. Since then, I suggest Internet entrepreneurs to consider Mobile and Smartphones markets seriously to invest in time and money.

Whether you’re designing a website for personal use or to help build your business, you undoubtedly understand the importance of showing up in search results—the higher, the better. Whereas this was once accomplished with “black hat” tactics like keyword stuffing and spammy links, Google has made most of these tactics ineffectual at best.

Google’s Panda Update was unofficially aimed at “content farms”: “We’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content. […] As ‘pure webspam’ has decreased over time, attention has shifted instead to ‘content farms,’ which are sites with shallow or low-quality content.”

In essence, Google can now read at a 10^th grade level and is able to differentiate original, quality content from poorly written content with irrelevant links. When you add to this the newest algorithm update, tentatively called the Google Fresh Update, which rates pages based upon how fresh and up-to-date the content is, along with how often the page is updated, it becomes apparent that having your page rank highly in Google is no easy feat.

So what can be done to improve your site’s chances of success?

The first step to creating an effective website is to be sure your page is aesthetically pleasing, and that the words flow well. The best way to do this is to create a rapid prototype of sorts of your page, in order to be sure that it is easy to navigate and that all of the links are in working order.

By “rapid prototype”, I mean a tangible recreation of your page that can be seen from all angles, and moved around if necessary, without having to constantly rewrite code. Some do this with charts or graphs, while others prefer the more rudimentary Post-It notes on a whiteboard. Whatever your choice, by viewing your page in this manner, you will be able to spot flaws that may drive potential consumers away.

Once you are certain your site has met these standards, then it’s time to start taking the various Google algorithm updates into account. Is your content well-written and error-free? If there are links that have been placed in your text, are they relevant, or might they be construed by Google as spam, thus lowering your standing in rankings? If your forte is not writing, then it might behoove you to find someone to write your on-page content for you, in order to ensure maximum success with Google.

In addition to that, have you had the same page design and on-page content since your site first went up in 2005? The Fresh Update will demote your page for this! Take the time to re-do your page whenever you start to feel the itch for something new. Also, stay up-to-date with news that is related to your product or page, and add fresh, relevant content whenever you can, in order to rank as highly as possible.

Finally, once you are certain your page is at its best, request that Google recrawl your page in order to have the changes you have made noted accordingly. This way, you don’t have to wait to start seeing the fruit of your labor (even though this is a slow process that requires patience).  Over time, you will start to notice that your site is gaining traffic and rising in search results.

The Internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee created the first website way back in 1991.  The World Wide Web is 20 years old and this infographic from KISSmetrics shows the evolution of web design from text-based pages with hyperlinks to HTML 5. I remember Flash, CSS and frames as important milestones of web design evolution. I also can’t forget how GeoCities democratized the Web and let all of us have “FREE” web pages. Today we all have blogs, Twitter accounts and Facebook pages but before all of these, there was GeoCities

Image courtesy of KISSmetrics .

Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers many  tools and platforms including its more popular products.

There are more than a hundred Google services & products and some useful ones are little-known. We prepared a guide for Google’s services and products to show you how big giant Google is. If you want to add a Google service or product that  doesn’t exist in this list, please feel free to comment.

We arranged Google’s services and products (only 130 of them!) into  10+1 categories:

Search, Advertising, Location, Communication&Publishing, Online Shopping, Personal Productivity, Business Solutions, Mobile, Development, Social Responsibility and Other.

All the Google Logos, trademarks, graphics and other material related to Google are properties of Google™.

This Site Is Not affiliated with Google™ .

References:

1. Google Company Profile on CrunchBase
2. Official Google Help Pages
3. List of Google products article on Wikipedia
4. Jooit’s Google Index

Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world’s expression — and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet. Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we’re all feeling and looking for. In this Ted Video, Jonathan Harris tells The Web’s Secret stories.

Google’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 post are written in one day about Google’s new service. To help you save time, we’ve compiled a list of top ten links that describe Google Wave best.

1. Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave : Google’ s Softaware Engineering Manager, Co-developer of Google Maps and Google Wave, Lars Rasmussen tells about Google Wave in this official Google Blog post.

2. Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web : MG Siegler of TechCrunch describes Google Wave as a new platform for a new web in his article.

3. Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity : TechCrunch IT Editor Steve Gilmor caught up with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and asked him about Google Wave. Don’t miss this video interview.

4. Google Wave: A Complete Guide : Mashable editor, Ben Parr compiled key information you should know about Google Wave.

5. Is Google Wave a Twitter Killer? avid Coursey from PCWorld searches an aswer to this question.

6. Google Wave: the Early Days : Tim O’Reilly, the Internet guru who first defined Web 2.0; wrote about the early days of Google Wave story which he learned from his conversation with Lars Rasmussen, at the Google I/O conference.

7. Google Wave: Five Things You Must Know : Mark Hachman form PcMagazine lists five thing you must know about Google Wave.

8. Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave : This FastCompany post written by Chris Dannen describes five reasons to be terrified of Google Wave.

9. Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave : A must-read CNET article about Google Wave by Tom Krazit.

10. Google Wave API : Google Wave API central for developers interested in building applications for Google wave.

Google Wave is still unavailable and and if you want to be informed when it is available, signup for Google Wave updates.

Fizy is a very new online music service. It just launched in 22 December, 2008. Fizy is a track-by-track music search service. You don’t need to download or make a playlist for listening to what you want.

Everyday people use Google for searching what they need. Because Google has a very easy-to-use interface and finds you what you want very fast. The best part of fizy is its very easy and fast interface, too. You just search for and play tracks you’re seeking. Google indexes every bit of the Internet and Fizy does the same for online legal music. Fizy is claiming 75+ billion tracks and 25+ billion video clips indexed by using  about 50 different APIs and supports 29 languages and all the content is legal! This is  what we call “convergience” and Music 3.0

Fizy become very popular in only one month because of a viral spread like Google. It’s spread isn’t as huge as Google but huge enough for a site like Fizy. Robert Yaris, c0-founder of Fizy shared the site over Digg to his 20 friends and one of this 20 friends shared it with social media strategist Dave Delaney. When Dave shared “Impressed with http://fizy.org for searching for music to listen to NOW without download.” status message on his twitter account with his 3,000 + followers, it was the time Fizy started to go viral!

In an interview with Robert Yaris, he tells that he and his team mates are addicted to music and were very bored to make efforts to listen to music online. “Offering content in the fastest and easiest way: This is Web 3.0″, he says.He also adds that a manager from Google has contacted them to talk about Fizy before 1 month passed after the launch.

Fizy has become a legend in one month and had 17.000.000 page views in January ’09. This shows the power of social media to go viral. Fizy means collaboration  and it is the candidate for becoming “Google of Music” and it’s definitely worth trying. We wish them good luck…

Update: Turkish Internet advertising company, ReklamZ has acquired 40% of Fizy.org

Music is one of the indispensable part of our lives. As the internet gets accessible to more people, the number of legal and illegal ways to access music online increases.

As the Web gets more popular, online music services are transformed into Music 2.0 services. Music 2.0 is a networked, web-native,de-centralized and wherever accesible (especially mobile) music business (source:mediafuturist) . If you want to learn more about Music 2.0,  the presentation below prepared by Gerd Leonhard is the best to learn what music 2.0 is. There are hundreds of music 2.0 services. The most popular ones are iTunes, Last.fm, Imeem. If you wonder all of them, you can check RocketSurgeon’s Music 2.0 directory on his blog.

As the Web 2.0 goes beyond user expectations, Web 3.0 called as “semantic web” comes out. To me, Web 3.0 means collaboration and there’s a new Music 3.0 service called Fizy. Fizy is worth writing a special review.

As i mentioned in an old post before, Angelsoft is a New York based company which has become an online ecosystem where investors and entrepreneurs meet to build new companies. Due to its name, Angelsoft was about Angel Investors.After they released version 3.0 , their platform became easier but more powerful. With version 3.4 release, Angelsoft is welcoming VCs into the Angelsoft Network.They’ve launched new power features that can help the venture capitalists streamline the process easier. As it happened in all releases, the interfaces are ipmroved and lots of bugs fixed.

2008 Stats

Angelsoft is an alive and transparent platform and has lots of transactions, so the stats from Angelsoft are reliable enough to represent the industry. I think the most important stat is “invested submissions rate” . As you see, very small number of companies  who apply get funded. This shows how hard being an entrepreneur is. Getting an investment doesn’t mean that you will be successful. The success rate of a startup is very low, too. Half of the startups fail within two years and then the others in the next three years. Average four year – survival rate of a startup is under 40% . There are 442 angel groups and VCs and 14,900 investors in the Angelsoft Ecosystem and Angelsoft processes over 2,100 funding applications a month. Since May 2008, 37,000 + deals made, about 2,000 events occured, 150,000 documents attached.

Doubling Investor Community Activity

One of the most important need of the entrepreneurs is promoting their plans to the investor community. Angelsoft listened to them and took steps to help them out which resulted in a doubling of the number of views that the Investors receive. The feedback form both investors and entrepreneurs have been positive as well which means a win-win situation. Investors now receive an email bi-weekly with the 5 closest and 5 highest rated deals.

Industry Valuations

As the graph at the above shows, the average amount of funds being sought differs between 25% – 35% of the pre-money valuation estimated by entrepreneurs for their companies. The graph also shows us that the valuation is decreasing but the rate of the funds sought is increasing. This means,

• The prices are getting down in the early stage investment industry,
• Entrepreneurs are aready to share more of their companies with the investors.

Conclusion

These new features are a major step forward in improving the funding process for entrepreneurs and investing process for investors. These days, you can see angel investors and VCs coinvesting on deals more often. Both the VCs and angels need each other and this relationship will be more important in the future. It’s a smart action to bring VCs on board and Angelsoft platfrom has become a better place for entrepreneurs and angel investors to be able to meet more people.

* All the data and the images used in this article are the property of Angelsoft.

Power.com is a new and 100% free platform that integrates social sites and provides a single interface to communicate, to browse, add a status message to all and reach content over these sites. Power.com is compatible with the following social sites: Orkut, MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, YouTube, Flogão and VoteMe. Power.com is founded in Brasil and Orkut, Google’s Social Network which is very popular in Brasil; so 5 million users have signed up Power.com since August and most of them is from Brasil and use their Orkut account.

On the Internet, there are many Web 2.0 services which we use on the Internet with the same purposes and it’s getting harder to control all of them at the same time. Web 3.0 will be about integrating similar Web 2.0 services and Power.com is a good piece. I think, Power.com is one of the first Web 2.5 services on the way of Web 3.0 and adding Facebook Connect and OpenID support can make Power.com more powerful.

LeWeb is the largest Web event where “Web People” meet in Europe and one of the largest in the world. This year’s LeWeb is on December 9-10th. LeWeb started in 2005 and this fifth edition is in Paris, too. LeWeb helps attendees to meet the speakers, entrepreneurs to meet investors; LeWeb enables web people to enlarge their networks. The sponsor list including Google, Nokia, Facebook, Swisscom, TechCrunch… shows the importance of this event.

The Startup Competition
The Startup Competition event is an important part of the LeWeb event. The Startup Competition enables the startups to present themselves in front of investors and advisors. Seedcamp, the competition sponsor of LeWeb reviewed each applicant project, scored and have selected 30 top companies for the competition. Each companies will have 7 minutes to present their applications in the first day of LeWeb. Three winners will have a chance to present on the main stage in the second day.

The selected companies are (in alphabetical order):

1.    2Win-Solutions – FRANCE
2.    3scale networks S. L. – SPAIN
3.    Apture – USA
4.    Box.net, Inc. – USA
5.    Brozengo SA – FRANCE
6.    Charge Ventures – Malta
7.    Cmune – CHINA
8.    ConTrust – ISRAEL
9.    DoctorSIM – SPAIN
10.  Edicy – ESTONIA
11.  Haploid – FRANCE
12.  IZI-collecte – FRANCE
13.  Kaltura – USA
14.  MyID.is Certified – FRANCE
15.  Nimbuzz – NETHERLANDS
16.  Popego Inc. – USA
17.  Producteev Inc. – USA
18.  Publing – FRANCE
19.  Radionomy – BELGIUM
20.  Samedi GmbH – GERMANY
21.  ShoutEm Ltd. – CROATIA
22.  Silentale SAS – FRANCE
23.  SquareClock – FRANCE
24.  Tellmewhere – FRANCE
25.  Trendiction – LUXEMBURG
26.  Viewdle, Inc – UKRAIN
27.  Webnode.com – CZECH REPUBLIC
28.  Zavedenia.com – BULGARIA
29.  Zipipop Ltd (Zipiko) – FINLAND
30.  Zoover Holiday Reviews – NETHERLANDS

Winning this competition is worthwhile; on the other hand, having an opportunity to participate in this competition is very important.

Google is out of control; it diffuses everywhere. But don’t take my words the wrong way. I find every service of Google useful and want to thank Google, because they share their applications’ APIs and helps the Open Source community. This means, Google both develops Web 2.0 applications and lets other entrepreneurs to develop their Web 2.0 applications easily. Google Search, Google Maps and YouTube have become inalienable for us in our daily lives. There are lots of other Google services: I could count 77 of Google services and made this list.

1. Google Search
   

   The logos and the trademarks are the property of Google.

2. Gmail
3. Gmail For Mobile
4. YouTube
5. Google Blog Search
6. Google Image Search
7. Google Mobile Search
8. Google Experimental Search
9. Google University Search
10. Google U.S. Goverment Search
11. Google Local Voice Search
12. Google Web History
13. Google Scholar
14. Google Desktop
15. Google Toolbar
16. SearchMash
17. Google Trends
18. Zeitgeist
19. Google Analytics
20. Google Movies
21. Google SMS
22. Google Video
23. Image Labeler
24. Google Adsense
25. Google Adwords
26. Audio Ads
27. Android
28. Google Click-to-Call
29. Google Groups
30. Orkut
31. Lively
32. Blogger
33. Google SketchUp
34. Google Book Search
35. Google Health
36. Google Flu Trends
37. Google News
38. Google Labs
39. Google Translate
40. Chrome
41. Google Earth
42. Google Maps
43. Google Mars
44. Google Sky
45. Google Moon
46. Google Ride Finder
47. Google Transit
48. Knol
49. Google Calendar
50. Google Alerts
51. Google Mobilizer
52. iGoogle
53. Google Reader
54. Picasa
55. Google Notebook
56. Google 3D WareHouse
57. Google Docs
58. Google Spreadsheets
59. Dodgeball
60. FeedBurner
61. Friend Connect
62. GrandCentral
63. Google Page Creator
64. Jaiku
65. TextCube
66. Google Webmaster Tools
67. Google Web Toolkit
68. Google Apps
69. Google Code
70. Google App Engine
71. OpenSocial
72. Google sites
73. Google Base
74. Google Checkout
75. GapMinder
76. Google Answers
77. Google Coop

This year; the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit took place November 5-7, 2008 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. Web 2.0 Summit is a conference where Web Industry discusses today’s Web’s challenges and opportunities and the Web’s future. The Web 2.0 Summit connects the leaders and technologists opening the Web’s business opportunities.

The theme for this year wasn’t just about the Internet. This year’s motto was “Web Meets World” .

Now is the time to ask how the Web—its technologies, its values, and its culture—might be tapped to address the world’s most pressing limits. Or put another way—and in the true spirit of the Internet entrepreneur—its most pressing opportunities.

Increasingly, the leaders of the Internet economy are turning their attention to the world outside our industry.

• Over 70 thought leaders and entrepreneurs slated to present in an interactive format stressing audience participation
• More than a dozen extraordinary thinkers and business leaders presented “High Order Bits” – ten minute stand-and-delivered presentations designed to provoke, delight, and amaze the audience.
• Top executives from platform businesses addressed the future of the Web in plenary sessions
• Experts focuses on innovative new web technologies in their expert led-workshops
• A variety of unique networking events including receptions, dinners and evening parties happened.

Al Gore, Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, John Heilemann,Michael Goguen Michael Pollan and Mark Zuckerberg were some of the speakers from inside and outside of the Internet Industry. John Heilemann lead a panel on ‘The Web and Politics’. The main subject was ‘the role of the Internet in Obama’ s victory’. GoodGuide, a startup that rates consumer products by their goodness won the Launchpad – startup contest.

We must thank O’Reilly and TechWeb for organizing this summit for five years. The content gets more quality each year. All presentations, videos and other rich content can be reached on O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 2008 site. We will be waiting for Web 2.0 Summit 2009 with impatience.

This video is about a conversation between Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo and John Battelle, founder of Federated Media.  Battelle asked hardcquestions about Microsoft and Google deals and Jerry Yang sometimes answered  sincerely and sometimes denied. Much more videos can be found on O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 2008 site.

In this post, we’ll take a look at LinkedIn’ s excellent growth but firstly let’s talk a few about ‘Business Social Networking’ .

Day to day, social networking becomes more important for us. Organizations that want to manage partnerships with their customers, suppliers and other organizations in the same industries start attending ‘Business Social Networks’. These organizations gain more efficient methods of communication, feedback and insight opportunity from their partners.

Succesful businesses recognize the importance of increasing loyalty through active communities for their partners. Smart companies use Web 2.0 technologies to reach their ‘business partners ecosystem’ with a cheaper, faster, more measurable and more efficient way. They use their business social networks as an easy and a powerful tool to reach and listen to their partners.

The value of a business social network is limited by the ability of creating conversations, sharing experiences, answering questions and offering feedback from partners. Briefly, the business professionals have started to see the value of being trasparent to their partners and understand to use social networks as viral marketing tools – called ‘social network marketing’ . ‘Monetizing the value of social networks’ will be a topic of a future post.

LinkedIn is the biggest business social networking site that gives members the ability of creating business contacts, finding potential customers, hiring/seeking jobs. LinkedIn has 30+ million users representing 150+ industries around the world. LinkedIn founded in 2003 and has caught a sustainable growth in years. In 2007, LinkedIn grew more than 300%.  LinkedIn’ s creative platform has changed traditional business card exchange process into spending time on LinkedIn and watching number of connections grow.

Today, LinkedIn CEO Dan NYE is announcing on company blog that LinkedIn has received $22.7 million investments from market leaders in their sectors. SAP Ventures, Goldman Sachs and The McGraw-Hill join the LinkedIn team after this investment. LinkedIn’s D Round of Funding closed at $1 billion valuation. In this volatile economic enviroment, it’s a very precious success to get these important companies as strategic partners. We congratulate LinkedIn …

Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0 Wiki.

Web 1.0 was about web pages linking to web pages. Web 2.0 is a transform, web pages to web applications.  The next generation of the web is Web 3.0 – the semantic web.

The Web 3.0 will be mashups of applications with artificial intelligence. The control of the Internet will go out off our hands and the web itself will control the Internet.

The Web 3.0 Expo will be at October 16-17 in Santa Clara, CA. At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo; the strategies, tools, technologies and the big ideas necessary for building impactful, socially relevant, and profitable Web 3.0 products, services and companies will be explored. Featured sessions include:

• Monetization Implications of Web 3.0 (Semantic Advertising, etc.)
• Raising Capital For Next Generation Companies
• Semantic Search Technologies
• From Web 2.0 to 3.0 – Tales from the Trenches
• Business Risks of Web 3.0 …