Hearst Acquires Kaboodle

The first social shopping site has been acquired. It seems a little early but the feeding frenzy may have begun. Hearst Corp. announced its acquisition of Kaboodle today for an undisclosed amount. Kaboodle is the best of the so-called social shopping sites. The problem with most is that they are...

LinkedIn: An Unsocial Network

I received a note in response to my request for topics from long-time Revenews reader Nathan. He asked that I avoid religion, politics, sports and just about every other topic. He wanted something closer to Web 2.0. For today, I will oblige his request. Here is today's article from our...

FatWallet on YouTube

Tim won't post anything self-promotional so I figured I'd put this up. It is hilarious. In case you doubted Web marketing today, watch the video. It looks like it was done by a FatWallet fan on his/her own. Hey, GiR2007... want some Cashbaq swag for your next video?...

MySpace not as Gray as Reported by comScore?

Last week, comScore reported that over half of MySpace users were over 35. It immediately struck me as odd. I don't know anyone in my demographic (yes, dead long ago if Logan's Run were the real world) who is on MySpace. That is not a value judgment of MySpace, just...

Studio 60's Failed Parody

No matter what you think of Aaron Sorkin's new show "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip", you should check out the parody blog from the show: Defaker. Wait, you can't. It was pulled after a ton of bad press and flames in the comments. The site is gone. Completely. What...

MySpace Shuts Its Doors to Web 2.0

No, MySpace isn't going out of business. Peter Chernin, News Corp's COO merely announced that MySpace is going to try to block all Web 2.0 widgets. You should read the complete Techcrunch story MySpace: We don’t need Web 2.0. Is this a successful strategy? I don't think so. I am...

What's Next? ThisNext!

I am way behind in my writing. The good news is that so many other people have written about ThisNext since we launched 3 weeks ago that I can let them speak for me. ThisNext launched our shopcasting network In case you missed it, ThisNext launched our shopcasting network on...