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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business models,
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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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Canada,
Web 2.0
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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Blogging,
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customer service,
Marketing,
microblogging,
PR,
Social Media,
Web 2.0
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
