A concept map for the entrepreneurial skills

Stuntdubl: SEO Strategy to make a site popular - a 2 year road map Buy a new (better be extremely brandable) domain. Build between 10 - 100 pages of good unique content Get one high quality on theme link to the site after site is built Site gets spidered Spend a few days each month getting about a dozen links

Via Clay Shirky: Can someone make money by blogs? Clay Shirky in his article says that blogs essentially destroys the intrinsic and extrinsic values of Print Publishing. Intrinsic - It takes real work to publish anything in print, and more work to store, ship, and sell it. Because the up-front costs are large, and because each additional copy generates some additional cost, the number of potential publishers is limited to organizations prepared to support these costs.

Upcoming.org , a firm on the lines of del.icio.us . The concept epitomizes a collaborative event calendar. It can also be a good alternative to meetup.com. Would be interesting to watch the progress of the site.

“U.S. Internet advertising surged 33% in 2004 to a record $9.6 billion, surpassing levels seen during the early Web boom – and it’s expected to grow at a similar rate in 2005, according to data released today.” With Search space becoming more competitive by the emergence of vertical search apps, it is projected that ad revenue this year would be close to $12.6 billion. This is clearly a trend for more interactive advertising.