_This is part of our new “Interesting”:http://www.onedegree.ca/category/interesting feature “we announced in April”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2006/04/25/whats-interesting-in-canada but then lost track of. If you have an “interesting” site you think we should feature let us know._
Recently I asked Floyd Marinescu, CEO & Co-founder of C4media and founder of “InfoQ”:http://www.infoq.com/ to explain what makes his site interesting.
*One Degree: Who needs InfoQ?*
Professionals in the Enterprise Software Development community, including developers, architects, project managers, consultants, coaches, etc.
*One Degree: Why do they need you?*
InfoQ provides daily news and technical content for the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities written by domain experts (instead of non-technical journalists). InfoQ also connects the audience to each other via lively discussions associated with current news and content. For professionals in this space, InfoQ is the only resource available that allows them to track what’s going on across these communities in one place.
Month: July 2006
This post contains language which may offend some. You’ve been warned!
After a glorious week off in Cape Cod, I was catching up one morning on my RSS Feeds and came across this chart at Silicon Beat with the updated unique visitor stats on the hot Web 2.0 sites, YouTube, Facebook, Photobucket and MySpace.
Two things struck me looking at these trends. First, despite now being owned by “the man”, MySpace continues to grow incredibly. Clearly the average user hasn’t figured out yet that Murdock didn’t lay down $600 Million so this property could continue to lose money. Eventually the marketing push at the site will become noticeable and then we’ll see if the growth rates continue to sustain themselves.
My second observation is that YouTube has a faster growth rate than any of the other superstar Web 2.0 sites. In a traditional portal space, this growth in regular users would naturally translate into the site being a magnet for advertising dollars. But I ask you, would you advertise your company’s brand on YouTube?
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