http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/ The personal web site of Eirik Solheim Wed, 16 May 2012 22:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1134 Darwinism on the web?-- The Adhere Creative Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:30:20 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1134 [...] Darwinism on the web? November 29th, 2005 Eirik Solheim’s blog “about Home Theatre PC’s, the media industry, travel, food, drink, the universe and everything (in that order)”, has an interesting post comparing the fortunes (well, traffic) of photosharing old hand www.webshots.com with newcomer www.flickr.com. Eirik picks up on some of the features of Flickr that may have led to its success: [...] [...] Darwinism on the web? November 29th, 2005 Eirik Solheim’s blog “about Home Theatre PC’s, the media industry, travel, food, drink, the universe and everything (in that order)”, has an interesting post comparing the fortunes (well, traffic) of photosharing old hand http://www.webshots.com with newcomer http://www.flickr.com. Eirik picks up on some of the features of Flickr that may have led to its success: [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1133 Web Publishing and Online Content » Blog Archive » Darwinism on the web? Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:55:29 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1133 [...] Eirik Solheim’s blog “about Home Theatre PC’s, the media industry, travel, food, drink, the universe and everything (in that order)”, has an interesting post comparing the fortunes (well, traffic) of photosharing old hand www.webshots.com with newcomer www.flickr.com. Eirik picks up on some of the features of Flickr that may have led to its success: [...] [...] Eirik Solheim’s blog “about Home Theatre PC’s, the media industry, travel, food, drink, the universe and everything (in that order)”, has an interesting post comparing the fortunes (well, traffic) of photosharing old hand http://www.webshots.com with newcomer http://www.flickr.com. Eirik picks up on some of the features of Flickr that may have led to its success: [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 529 Blog » Blog Archive » Darwinism on the web? Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:39:17 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1132 [...] Eirik Solheim’s blog “about Home Theatre PC’s, the media industry, travel, food, drink, the universe and everything (in that order)”, has an interesting post comparing the fortunes (well, traffic) of photosharing old hand www.webshots.com with newcomer www.flickr.com. Eirik picks up on some of the features of Flickr that may have led to its success: [...] [...] Eirik Solheim’s blog “about Home Theatre PC’s, the media industry, travel, food, drink, the universe and everything (in that order)”, has an interesting post comparing the fortunes (well, traffic) of photosharing old hand http://www.webshots.com with newcomer http://www.flickr.com. Eirik picks up on some of the features of Flickr that may have led to its success: [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 jbyers - blog » Alexa Addiction - Tale of the Tape Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:28:03 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1131 [...] I admit it - I’m addicted to Alexa. Through data gathered by their Internet Explorer toolbar, Alexa attempts to rank the popularity of web sites along various metrics. Tech pundits love to point to Alexa stats when drinking the Kool Aid (or proclaiming the death of a service). Two great recent examples are Digg vs. Slashdot and Flickr vs. Webshots. It’s a bit like sizing up boxers before a fight just by the numbers, genesis of the the famous saying “the tale of the tape”. [...] [...] I admit it – I’m addicted to Alexa. Through data gathered by their Internet Explorer toolbar, Alexa attempts to rank the popularity of web sites along various metrics. Tech pundits love to point to Alexa stats when drinking the Kool Aid (or proclaiming the death of a service). Two great recent examples are Digg vs. Slashdot and Flickr vs. Webshots. It’s a bit like sizing up boxers before a fight just by the numbers, genesis of the the famous saying “the tale of the tape”. [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » Presentation for The Norwegian Computer Society Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:44:02 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1130 [...] I post an article on the fact that the popular picture sharing service called Flickr just passed the market leader Webshots in traffic. Suggesting some reasons for the success of Flickr. The founder of Webshots, Narenda Rocherolle trackbacks to my blog and also comments on another service called Photobucket. Representatives directly from Photobucket comments on Narenda’s site. It’s interesting how it’s possible to reach important representatives and start a discussion at a high level trough web publishing. [...] [...] I post an article on the fact that the popular picture sharing service called Flickr just passed the market leader Webshots in traffic. Suggesting some reasons for the success of Flickr. The founder of Webshots, Narenda Rocherolle trackbacks to my blog and also comments on another service called Photobucket. Representatives directly from Photobucket comments on Narenda’s site. It’s interesting how it’s possible to reach important representatives and start a discussion at a high level trough web publishing. [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1129 mathewingram.com/work » Blog Archive » Flickr vs. Webshots Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:12:45 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1129 [...] Thomas Hawk, a Flickr fan who writes a technology blog at thomashawk.com, recently linked to an interesting post by Norwegian engineer and blogger Eirik Solheim, who compared Flickr — the former Vancouver-based photo site that is now part of the Yahoo empire — with Webshots, a photo site that is celebrating its 10th anniversary. [...] [...] Thomas Hawk, a Flickr fan who writes a technology blog at thomashawk.com, recently linked to an interesting post by Norwegian engineer and blogger Eirik Solheim, who compared Flickr — the former Vancouver-based photo site that is now part of the Yahoo empire — with Webshots, a photo site that is celebrating its 10th anniversary. [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 Better software. Better science. Better sex. » Webshots and Flickr: A (Possibly) More Thorough Analysis Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:59:10 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1128 [...] On November 25, Eirik Solheim posted a graph of the Alexa numbers comparing Flickr and Webshots. The same day, Thomas Hawk amplified the message with a bit more analysis. Before we go into any analysis, let’s look at the graph in question. [...] [...] On November 25, Eirik Solheim posted a graph of the Alexa numbers comparing Flickr and Webshots. The same day, Thomas Hawk amplified the message with a bit more analysis. Before we go into any analysis, let’s look at the graph in question. [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1117 www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » w00t! This blog is a winner. Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:08:59 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1117 [...] Special thanks go to: First of all the person that entered my blog into the competition! I didn’t know about this competition before I saw the traffic from Dagbladet… Then Oyvind at Brilliantdays for huge amounts of knowledge and a link to my post trying to convince people to vote for me. Ian over at The Media Center Show for mentioning me on the show! Thomas Hawk for nice compliments and a link in his excellent post about my short comparison of Flickr and Webshots. [...] [...] Special thanks go to: First of all the person that entered my blog into the competition! I didn’t know about this competition before I saw the traffic from Dagbladet… Then Oyvind at Brilliantdays for huge amounts of knowledge and a link to my post trying to convince people to vote for me. Ian over at The Media Center Show for mentioning me on the show! Thomas Hawk for nice compliments and a link in his excellent post about my short comparison of Flickr and Webshots. [...]

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1127 olivier blanchard Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:46:55 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1127 Aha! Cool. Thanks for the response. :) Aha! Cool. Thanks for the response.

]]> http://eirikso.com/2005/11/25/flickr-and-webshots-a-classic-web20-case/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 arnet’s Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2005-11-27 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:43:45 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/?p=230#comment-1126 [...] www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » Flickr and Webshots - A classic web2.0 case (tags: flickr webshots reviews) [...] [...] http://www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » Flickr and Webshots – A classic web2.0 case (tags: flickr webshots reviews) [...]

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