Spotlight

Spotlight: Like.com Invigorates Crowded Online Shopping Sector with Visual Search

Authored by Scott Goldberg on November 28, 2006 - 5:59am.

It takes guts to willingly join a market as crowded as the online shopping space, which Riya's offspring Like.com did at the beginning of November. Online shopping has exploded in 2006. According to Patti Freeman Evans, an analyst with JupiterResearch, online sales will reach $100 billion dollars this year for the first time, and will constitute 6% of total merchandise sales this holiday season. Riya co-founder and CEO Munjal Shah said he loves crowded spaces. "That's where the money is. That's why they're crowded."

Spotlight: College Tonight Takes on MySpace, Facebook on Coveted Turf

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 26, 2006 - 10:20am.

At the Digital Music Forum West in October, Eric Garland, CEO of BigChampagne, predicted that social networking and peer-to-peer sites will evolve into smaller communities where users will find more people with similar tastes. “The people you are interacting with will become more and more like you,” Garland said. “It will be smaller groups, and larger phenomena.” Enter Zachary Suchin, the 22-year-old President and CEO of the social networking site College Tonight, who believes MySpace and Facebook have seen their best days pass.

Spotlight: The Revver Model Separates it From the Pack

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 11, 2006 - 11:29am.

Google might have liked YouTube, but Revver might be more valuable. The company splits the ad revenue from a piece of content 50-50 with its creators, and is adamant about prohibiting files that violate copyright laws. If I'm a content creator, I'm all over that site right now. The more popular it becomes the more potential money in your pocket.