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Saved by 2 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-04-29
- Jahmount on 2008-05-01 - Tags no_tag
- Trishussey on 2008-04-29 - Tags web2.0 , apis , facebook , friendfeed , twitter
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Business models: It is easy to build new applications on top of API’s, for example in Facebook, but it isn’t easy to create revenues of them
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Filtering for information overload: aquote from the article:
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Looking at new business models is very important. I have written a lot about the current “freemium” business model , as Fred Wilson calls it.
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But the con to it is that free always leads to monetizing something other than user value
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There are only few that have executed this model well making revenues out of it. Google of course is king.
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It leads to customer lock-in, and network value instead of user value.
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As a consequence getting lots of users on board is more important than delivering user valu
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The Filtering for information overload theme is interesting, but at the same time it is mainly a tech elite’s problem.
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Second, underlying all that is the incredible fragmentation of services providing content.
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The dominant sharing technology for the tech world is RSS. RSS is great, but it leads to automatic and unintentional sharing. That is why I don’t like Friendfeed as much as I wanted.
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To me RSS is the democracy of publishing. But right now it is non-specific, it targets anyone that is willing to listen to it.
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In my opinion the next frontier will be to create alternative business models for “freemium”. If anyone can break through that barrier and become successful in generating revenues out of user value, then we could leave the era of web 2.0 behind.
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