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What is the business model for the Web?

by Tris Hussey on December 20, 2008 · 4 comments

in Internet Life, Web 2.0

Wow. Digg bleeding cash, ad revenues tanking, everyone want stuff for free–is there a smart, safe, and sane business model for the web?

The same cannot be said of Digg, a site conceived by television host Kevin Rose as a replacement for the editors who pick headlines for readers. On Digg, readers vote headlines up by “digging” them, or down by “burying” them.
For now, Digg is safe, insulated from the marketplace as a well-funded private company. But if Adelson no longer plans to sell the company, he will have to take [...]

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Sure it’s been in the works for four months, but today it’s official, AbeBooks is now part of Amazon:

AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, with over 110 million primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of independent booksellers from around the world. A true Internet success story, AbeBooks.com has been selling books online since 1996, and is a private company based in Victoria, with affiliates in Germany and the United States. Internet Retailer magazine ranked AbeBooks at No. 73 among North American online retailers in [...]

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Jim Turner and I worked together at One By One Media and Bloggers For Hire when business blogging was a new and unproven way to reach customers. Yes, it was often a hard slog, but blogging was hot in the media and a lot of people were being told to “get a blog for us” so we did. Now times are a wee tougher and Jim is seeing the predictable backlash.

I can see a pattern to something that is beginning to make me think that the economy is hitting even [...]

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This post from Service Untitled gave me just the right push and connection to flesh out my customer service post that’s been perking in my brain for a couple days now–Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Greet your customers by name.
As you know Wednesday night I made the leap back into the Mac world, that’s only half of the story. You see to make the transition complete, and not to be paying for something I couldn’t use, I needed to replace my PCMCIA EVDO modem with a USB version.
Sounds simple right? [...]

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Colleen Coplick’s discussion Sunday about Twitter ad start up Magpie brought a lot to the surface, and from the tweet search on the topic I don’t think many folks are in favour of it.
Colleen plays Devil’s advocate contrasting Twitterfeed to Magpie:
I totally understand that point of view,  but I’m not sure how using magpie ads differ from using Twitterfeed to push my blog posts out to my followers. Why is that not considered spam but the magpie is? And would it be any different if Twitter themselves inserted [...]

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