The Justinian

Do you sell anything online? Do you buy or sell online advertising? If you do and have been doing it long enough, you know how valuable it is to know the conversion statistics for different types of traffic. You could spend a lot of time and money doing trial and error, but […]

Which Web 2.0 site is the most popular? I’ll use two methods to find out…
Following the number of searches may be inaccurate because some sites don’t get as much traffic from search engines relative to others, but it does show what people what to find and are actively typing in, so it has merit.

Provided […]

Al-Jazeera shook up established media in the Middle East, and it is guaranteed to do the same as its English version launches in the West. It is in fact launching the first English language news channel to be based in the Middle East. This is old news, though. What’s new is that […]

We all know the big guys in the online travel field: Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz.  There are some new players however picking up ground quickly.  The heavily promoted priceline.com with television ads by William Shatner are indeed funny, but take a look at this:

Kayak.com just began outranking cheaptickets.com and priceline.com this week after passing hotwire.com […]

This is a no-brainer right? Practically all of the major Web 2.0 sites are in the United States. Craigslist, Digg, del.icio.us, YouTube, technorati, etc to name a few. Granted, the $1.65 billion YouTube sale was to a public company, but it didn’t IPO. Europe will be first as Deutsche Bank […]

There’s rarely been doubt that Google is “master of its domain.” But when newspapers and other traditional media sources start clambering to work with the Goog, it makes one wonder whether the company’s dominance can extend beyond its natural realm.

Word is that Google is marrying its existing technology, which allows advertisers to better pinpoint […]

How about demand from a huge telecommunications company for the one piece of technology nearly everyone carries with them at nearly every waking hour? Or how about demand from different huge companies that control the real American pastime: watching television.

YouTube and Verizon may be partnering. In addition Comcast and Time Warner may be players as […]

Credit card companies, banks, loan sharks, online stock trading sites (make all their money in margin interest), and mortgage companies make a lot of money in the huge business of lending. On a retail level however, lending people money generally isn’t a profitable or painless way of investing. This is changing. “Social lending” is catching […]