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The article gives a couple of clues about how bit.ly makes money: Its first source of revenues comes from Bit.ly Pro accounts, which are used by 3,000 companie
by mootothemax 16y ago
The article gives a couple of clues about how bit.ly makes money:
Its first source of revenues comes from Bit.ly Pro accounts, which are used by 3,000 companies and another individual 1,000 power users.
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The bigger opportunity for bit.ly is in all the data it is harvesting about which links people are sharing in realtime... If you think about it, bit.ly knows what news is breaking because everybody is sharing it.
Interesting to think about moneytising the links in this way :-)
- pchristensen 16y agoNot to rain on their parade, but wasn't data mining supposed to make FoxMarks valuable too?
- mediaman 16y agoThere are many businesses for whom vague hand-waving about data mining is supposedly a monetization strategy. Most of them don't work, because people forget that not all data is valuable.
- photon_off 16y agoMy sentiments. I think that anybody who says "URL popularity data mining is valuable" is just repeating what somebody else said. There are probably 100 services right now that could tell you the hottest 1,000 URLs. Delicious, Google/Yahoo Buzz, any of the dozens of popular bookmarking and social media sites, AddThis.com and their ilk, Quantcast and their ilk, Twitter, any URL shortening service, your ISP, etc. URLs have been currency for a long time now. I hear about this information being valuable all the time, yet I've never once read about any of these companies profiting from knowing the popularity of URLs. I might just be ignorant, so please HN, tell me who is paying for a list of popular URLs?