Comments on: Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability

By: Sanjay Maharaj

Sanjay Maharaj — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:56:30 +0000

Thier revenue models will have to offer some real value added services away from the hype of the virtual goods and services being offered althoug they currently do contribute a fortune to their bottom line. I sincerely believe that any social network that offers some tangible real value and charges a small fee to their users, users will pay for this service as long as it provides a value to them
What about adding value to users contents and getting them to rate and control their contents?

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By: Will

Will — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:28:44 +0000

“the web2.0 will not become sustainable until advertising2.0 is here. today we are trying to monetize web2.0 with ad1.0 which does not seem to work.”

Advertising 2.0 is a figment of your imagination.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:19:13 +0000

“FINALLY!!!! Some one fucking said it. And I better not seem some comment from a Snob 2.0 about how rev and business models don’t matter right now, because thats horse shit.”

It’s only horse shit if you didn’t time the market well. To win this M&A game, where you could sell profitless or even revenue-less websites for $100 million (see Powerset), you had to time the market just right. Now it’s too late for the most part.

Gone are the days where you could make a website that doesn’t have any profit or revenue at all and get a search engine to buy you simply out of fear that if they don’t, their competitor will snatch you away. This was the magnificent story of Powerset, and Cuil probably thought it could duplicate it, but it mis-timed the market. And when you mistime the market with this much cash at stake, you really fall flat. In order to time the market well in Web 2.0, you really had to examine who cashed out of Web 1.0 at the right time and why and emulate them.

By: Easy on the content

Easy on the content — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:28:25 +0000

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By: Sangfroid

Sangfroid — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:21:58 +0000

This is an awesome write-up!
All my doubts about the revenue model for the nearly daily launched this.com that.com, have come to reality.

That is to say, there is no model per se apart from the the dwindling online ads.

I’ll be hooked to your posts. Keep them coming.

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