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Free service number 1 with no business model in sight wages war against free service number 2 with equally no business model in sight. "web2.0" is the new "New

by dotcoma 16y ago

Free service number 1 with no business model in sight wages war against free service number 2 with equally no business model in sight. "web2.0" is the new "New Economy".

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pclark 16y ago
Tumblr and Posterous have revenue. Tumblr sell themes and micropayment sponsorship, Posterous offer premium blogs to companies.
dustydean 16y ago
Spot on. I can't recommend people post their longer form content and media on platforms that have an opaque path to generating revenue. I do recommend that they have someone create a self-hosted open source platform for sharing their content online. The custom post types that have finally arrived in WordPress 3.0 allow people to create their own mini-Tumblrs on their self-hosted website. I feel that if someone works hard enough to create their own content then they should give some serious thought to their publishing platform too.
- kmfrk 16y ago
  You could be cute and say that Marco has seen the writing on the wall with his Mac-only backup client (http://www.marco.org/277762675 http://www.marco.org/277762675). :) I belong in the group of people who have yet to be convinced of the financial stability of Tumblr, but its free hosting, great themes and ways to get exposure using the platform in combination with Fusion, Deck and other ads is very attractive; you would not risk any economical loss using Tumblr. To be fair to Tumblr, most of the people using the service don't seem to blog with writing content with staying value in mind; you could argue that the microblogging serves as a Zeitgeist echochamber similar to what Twitter can be in some instances.
bentlegen 16y ago
Tumblr does have a business model, or at least the start of one: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium
- dotcoma 16y ago
  Looks more like a prayer to me...
  - zalew 16y ago
    prayer? woothemes makes over 2mil on wp themes alone. and I almost haven't heard of them till the news about the cash.
    - dotcoma 16y ago
      I had no idea. Still, it's great money for two designers who put up a site like that, a bit less for a company funded with millions of dollars like Tumblr. And it's non-recurring (buy it once, and that's it) money, too.

by dotcoma 16y ago

Free service number 1 with no business model in sight wages war against free service number 2 with equally no business model in sight. "web2.0" is the new "New Economy".

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pclark 16y ago

Tumblr and Posterous have revenue. Tumblr sell themes and micropayment sponsorship, Posterous offer premium blogs to companies.

dustydean 16y ago

Spot on. I can't recommend people post their longer form content and media on platforms that have an opaque path to generating revenue. I do recommend that they have someone create a self-hosted open source platform for sharing their content online. The custom post types that have finally arrived in WordPress 3.0 allow people to create their own mini-Tumblrs on their self-hosted website. I feel that if someone works hard enough to create their own content then they should give some serious thought to their publishing platform too.

kmfrk 16y ago
You could be cute and say that Marco has seen the writing on the wall with his Mac-only backup client (http://www.marco.org/277762675 http://www.marco.org/277762675). :) I belong in the group of people who have yet to be convinced of the financial stability of Tumblr, but its free hosting, great themes and ways to get exposure using the platform in combination with Fusion, Deck and other ads is very attractive; you would not risk any economical loss using Tumblr. To be fair to Tumblr, most of the people using the service don't seem to blog with writing content with staying value in mind; you could argue that the microblogging serves as a Zeitgeist echochamber similar to what Twitter can be in some instances.

bentlegen 16y ago

Tumblr does have a business model, or at least the start of one: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium http://www.tumblr.com/themes/premium

dotcoma 16y ago
Looks more like a prayer to me...
- zalew 16y ago
  prayer? woothemes makes over 2mil on wp themes alone. and I almost haven't heard of them till the news about the cash.
  - dotcoma 16y ago
    I had no idea. Still, it's great money for two designers who put up a site like that, a bit less for a company funded with millions of dollars like Tumblr. And it's non-recurring (buy it once, and that's it) money, too.