Monday’s Noon Links

Posted on January 21, 2008
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I’m lazy today so just links and no commentary.

OpenID2 becomes even more important I have been a MyYahoo user since it’s inception. 3 years ago I went into Yahoo – more or less pleading with them to open up MyYahoo, turn it into a Portals 2.0 – DLA – and ultimately put Yahoo into the lead in the open web. Well they’ve bought lots of companies – but with the exception of Flickr – haven’t really executed on any sort of comprehensive Web 2.0 strategy. The embarassing Y!360 aside – their hearts have been in the right place and now we’re FINALLY seeing a direct statement of support for OpenID2. Notice the 2. Though they aren’t really taking advantage of any of the advanced features of OpenID2 – hopefully they will in the future. Specifically – I want to be able to move profile, social graph and other personal data both OUT OF and back INTO MyYahoo – or whichever Yahoo social network I’m participating in. Yahoo’s 150M+ monthly uniques and 500M+ MyYahoo acount members will thank the [From Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » OpenID2 becomes even more important]

As we mentioned in our last article, 5 Free Search Engine Optimization Tools Available Online, analytics can be a great way to evaluate and improve your website. Based on all the feedback and information we received from readers, we decided to round out our top ten with five more sites (and some useful tools) that can help add value to your website. 1. SEOmoz : This is a great site for evaluating some key online analytics including page strength, keyword difficulty, crawl test and term targeting. Another useful resource is the site’s GeoTargeting Direction Tool. This shows how a site appears in local searches on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Live Search. The screenshots show where on the page a company website appears and what other sites appear near it. If a site is not listed, the results page has a link to add it to each [From 5 More Free Tools To Improve Search Engine Optimization]

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations. This year’s data focuses on one of the same two metrics used last year price/EBIT (no price/sales data was provided). What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind. Many companies I’ve met with over the past 12 months have really pumped up their valuations. If the exit valuations aren’t increasing, then the entry price isn’t going to be increasing… Fred summed it up well just before Christmas: funding in 2008 isn’t going to be the party its been over the past [From Jason Ball's TechBytes: Exit Valuation Trends: 2007]

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