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Max Levchin(Slide) started a discussion on “The Platform Advantage” at the Web 2.0 Summit. Participants included Vic Gundotra(Google),David Treadwell(Microsoft),Elliot Schrage(Facebook) and Amit Kapur(MySpace).
The talk initiated with a basic outlook of 'Platform',going deeper afterwards.Amit pointed that "A platform has to create an ecosystem that includes a core base of users, tools to build applications, and an advertising network to monetize the platform"
The Yahoo advertisement deal has been dumped by Google. The description about it is given below.
Jerry Yang may be thinking this moment "Oh my God...The BIG deal is OVER !" and all the expectations of Yahoo! from this deal appear deep dumped by Google.
'Google-Yahoo! Ad deal' was possibly the biggest hope of Yahoo! for the past few months,not just for the company's shareholders but also for every Y! employee who was wishing a "secured" future for the company(even if they themselves are not secure).
Specially when Yahoo was negotiating with Microsoft over company's worth,the only 'pseudo' support behind dishonouring MS acquisition proposal was 'expected Ad deal' with Google to get Y! profits back on track and therefore increase in Yahoo!'s overall worth.
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We are glad to tell you that we've just turned 100...
In other words,this is the 100th post on TechPluto and a definite moment of achievement(although minor) for me and the guest editors who poured in their knowledge over this small tech planet (Pluto!).
So far,we profiled numerous startups,wrote about web technologies,gadgets,apps,latest tech trends,events,acquisitions and much more
Technology Jounalism has been a satisfying experience for editors at TechPluto so far and the intelligent and active audience(225+ comments so far) has just taken our enthusiasm to a higher level.
Since our 'broader tech coverage' from the month of september,we're getting decent traction from
Knight News Challenge is giving away upto $5 Million for funding bright ideas that will serve public interest
Knight Foundation is hosting 'Knight News Challenge',a social effort to encourage ideas that have the capability and novelty of serving public interest but require funds to get them implemented.
They're giving away around $5 Million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects,services, and programs.
You're a right candidate for this challenge if you have a idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information.
Applications will be taken till November 1, 2008 so hurry if you think you're the ONE and haven't participated yet.There's
We admire TechCrunch because of the content it delivers with almost no 'silent'(NO hot discussions) period.And our level of enthusiasm was above average when TC50 was going on..BUT,the results(the winner of TC50) came as a BIG UPSET after such an well-hyped event(as we all say,"all's well that ends well" but here the end wasn't that "well")
TC50 had a neck-to-neck competition with DEMO and they were scoring pointing over DEMO in many ways,but the results have really disappointed not just us but a lot of guys keeping an eagle eye over this event..
And let's not forget the so called "winners" of this event....it's Yammer
This is how TC briefs up the winner of TC50...
"Yammer is Twitter with a business model,created by an existing company,Geni,to scratch its own itch.Yammer takes the familiar Twitter messaging system and applies it to internal corporate communications.There is such a huge demand for this type of service that 10,000 people and 2,000 organizations signed up for the service the first day it launched on Monday.Anyone with a 
