Let’s take my favorite example — MySpace. There’s an article in the Times today about MySpace’s struggle to monetize it’s ever-ballooning asset. According to comScore Media Metrix, MySpace had 28 billion page views in March 2006. Annualized, that’s 366 billion page views. Yet Richard Greenfield of Pali Capital estimates that MySpace’s revenue this year will only be $200 million. Do the math — that’s a CPM of $0.55!
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Is my bank account going to get extra interest?
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Our interpretation of this new attitude is that blogging offers so little value-added for the reader that bloggers must fight over credit for trivialities. Word-of-Mouth has now been monetized.
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Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?
Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.
Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.
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Your new website is ready to launch. It's a great idea. Nobody else is doing it. It's going to revolutionize the internet and become a verb, making you millions in the process. You've just checked in the last bugfix (You're using version control, right?). It's time to launch!
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I love video mashups - the funniest home grown content out there
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