The Digg boys are at it again.
NYT is saying they have almost $1 million in backing:

Revision3 has close to $1 million in financing from a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, and Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm that has backed the start-ups Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as Digg.

Banking [...]

This isn’t completely true:
Temporary social networks are fairly rare
There are plenty of folks at WOMMA, like Affinitive, that have been creating “temporary social networks” for the video game industry and elsewhere. Affinitive’s social network product, Enclave has all the components for this: blog, chat, profiles, video, groups, msg boards, etc.
Do the tools Enclave has built-in [...]

I guess a million just isn’t worth what it used to be.
1. Facebook wants to get 1.5 billion $1 billion in an acquisition deal.
2. McDonald’s serves billions and billions.
3. Google indexes billions and billions (of pages).
4. A Man may have sent 2 billion spam e-mails.

UPDATE:
Oh my, how could I forget the most important billion dollar [...]

(MyCrappy)Videos
nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah… My site is bigger than your site. My videos are bigger than your videos.
Is Rupert kidding himself here? I can understand that MySpace’s video play is big, and getting bigger everyday. As Pete Cashmore points out, it isn’t that hard to build a product and shove it down [...]

Every now and again, someone nails web 2.0. Value is created and it grows. It grows like weeds.
They have a map mashup. They integrate with Yahoo Real Estate, never a bad move. They then add a cool mobile application that lets you check out the price of the home you are a dinner guest at. [...]

This is another early week wrap up of what I see and what the (in)significance of it may be.
1. Complete Crapstr - is there a web 2.0 rule that a new social network has to be released every single day? From alpha to beta, from gamma to deep-undercover-private-zeta, new crapr sites are popping up [...]

Kudos to SI… but this week’s sign that the apocalyse is surely upon us:

Run. Run away now while you still can.
Seriously, a social network site for fans of sneakers? We already have stupid sites like this. They have names like Dogster, Catster, Hamster, Horseter…
The last thing I need to do is look at pictures of [...]

Netflix works. Not much else to say about it. As Cuban has mused, it really doesn’t seem like someone hawking downloadable movies (AOL or iTV anyone) is going to unseat them anytime soon. Evertime I visit Netflix to update my queue, they seem to have a new feature that makes the whole website experience that [...]

Now that Socializr is out and we thankfully now have Blufr available, I thought it would be a great public service to list out 10 possible web 2.0 company names and what they could be used for:
1. Duffr - a social network for hack golfers everywhere.
2. WTFr - a place to simply ask WTF, maybe [...]

We all know what the CEO said. Too bad he is dead wrong. Mashable’s claim that all these widget-darlings are “feeding the MySpace beast” may actually be the other way around. Maybe it is Myspace that is feeding off everyone else, like a giant leech.
Look at MySpace. It is so web 1.0 in its construct [...]