Hi All,

I just wanted to announce that we have acquired King Ping, the online blog pinging tool that enables bloggers to update in one click the rest of the blogosphere (or many different search engines) about their new posting. We have acquired King Ping from Fredrick Giasson, which also joins King Ping advisory board. Thanks Fred for a real smooth transaction and welcome aboard!

We plan to extend King Ping in a few new exciting ways and to relaunch it soon.

aggreg is a web holding company that currently holds Strategicboard, a blogs and news search engine (that is also going through face lift:).

Stay tuned on this blog for more updates on the subject.

Dudu

See Google Launches Pay Per Action Ads and my post from may 2005.

dudu

I’ve read today EarlyStageVC’s post Web 2.0 - Over and Out and to say the least I wasn’t very happy. I guess a better title for the post would have been “Web 2.0 - Over and Out for VCs”!

As a web 2.0/web/online entrepreneur that has been in the startup business for more then 10 years, I know that innovation comes in waves and after every high tide there is a low. We can call the current low sobriety.

Sobriety for web 2.0 entrepreneurs (of course the ones who didn’t make it on the acquisition list of google) means deep understanding that natural ad based growth can’t support a business system and making the app better (which is needed always even when your app is a killer) takes money. Usually during sobriety you start thinking and that takes time unless you want to repeat same mistakes. I think it is not death, it just preparation for the next round.

I agree it resembles the bubble burst and many want to be the first to identify and tell about the next burst. Still, it just look similar but is not the same. Even for the small fact that people dependency level on the net nowadays vs. 199X era is totally different and only grows.

I feel that the next startup wave will be much more conservative in terms of sustainable business models and as such it will be much more valuable to users.

VCs trying to capitalize on the fast route to payment of highly succesful web 2.0 companies (the ones who were acquired) really don’t have much to do in this domain anymore unless they look for investing in real businesses that grow organically. Same thing as in enterprise software, with just different rules of game.

Dudu

Hi,
W2Apps, is a web 2.0 news and blogs portal that delivers what is happening right now in the web 2.0 world. We aggregate blogs and news feeds that are only relevant to web 2.0 including ajax, social networks, wikis, blogging, feeds, enterprise 2.0, blog search engines, aggregators of any kind and more.

The portal will provide subscription on search results via rss, full text search, domain specific page ranking, evolving discussions, easy social bookmarking and more. Also, web site owners, will be able to use our mini W2Apps search box within their site (or blogs) to extend their service to their users.

Dudu

Hi All,

Our soon to be launched portals (W2Apps, Cars Monitor, Middleastern, Googms) are based on a proprietary content classification technology.

Our innovation lies in the capability to maintain a list of content sources (feeds, web pages and anything else) that is focused on a specific subject. A subject, such as cars (Cars Monitor) or web 2.0 (W2Apps) represent a large domain of knowledge that is made of many sub domains. If we take cars for example, then there are car brands, engines, gadgets, energy sources and the list goes on…

We can accurately identify whether a source is contributing to the domain of knowledge or not.

Within Strategicboard we provide a search interface to our global pool of news and blogs and our portals will be initially based on this pool as the primary source for relevant content.

dudu

Hi All,

We are in the middle of building concurrently four new blogs portal that deal with specific subjects:
Cars Monitor - Carsmonitor.com is a blogs portal with content related to cars only.
Googms - Googms.com is a blogs portal with content related to Google and Microsoft rivals.
W2Apps - W2Apps.com is a blogs portal with content related to web 2.0 only.
Middleastern - Middleastern.com is a blogs portal with content related to the middle east only.

All the portals are based on a proprietary technology (runs currently in Strategicboard for automatically classifying blogs based on different subjects.

Dudu