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Wow... I wonder how far we are from having a marketplace for widely Liked sites to sell their ability to post to their audience. (Unsavory startup idea!)
by jcl 16y ago
Wow... I wonder how far we are from having a marketplace for widely Liked sites to sell their ability to post to their audience. (Unsavory startup idea!)
- patio11 16y agoGiven that widely linked sites are frequently bought after being abandoned and used by spammers (for link equity and direct traffic), I don't think that is far fetched at all. A startup can reasonably achieve a metric truckload of likes (to the startup, to content, whichever), fail to achieve revenue, and fold in an N month period. The assets of a failed startup are worth close to nothing, and can probably be acquired for close to it. (Who at a shuttered company is in charge of re-registering the domain name, after all?) All you have to do is one blaze-of-glory phishing scam, or something like "Save Twitrliciously! Donate $5 to help keep us open!", etc. (Not a unique risk, given that you could do that with just the web page, but it gets you instant distribution to a highly targeted audience and that is 90% of the battle.) Facebook getting the memo and shutting down the site N hours later does not necessarily help all that much.
- nl 16y ago* how far we are from having a marketplace for widely Liked sites to sell their ability to post to their audience.* Minus a couple of years (ie, it's been pretty common for a while) Eg: (Warning: about as spammy as you'd expect) http://usocial.net/facebook_marketing/ http://usocial.net/facebook_marketing/ Prices: 1000 for $197 up to 250,000 for $8997.20