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"Should we expect Scribd’s traffic to take a nosedive? Unlikely. Porn may have helped Scribd gain momentum in its infancy, but the site has long since proven it
by wumi 18y ago
"Should we expect Scribd’s traffic to take a nosedive? Unlikely. Porn may have helped Scribd gain momentum in its infancy, but the site has long since proven its use as a blogging tool and a document repository. If anything, it’s surprising that it took Scribd this long to make the switch."
so will Justin.tv ban illegal broadcasts as well?
seems the somewhat successful strategy for building content on these community apps is allowing either illegal or unscrupulous behavior to build traffic, and then nix it when you're big enough to survive on your own.
Is this the strategy PG recommends, or the YC founders just think of it on their own?
- andreyf 18y agoseems the somewhat successful strategy for building content on these community apps is allowing either illegal or unscrupulous behavior to build traffic, and then nix it when you're big enough to survive on your own It worked for YouTube, didn't it? Is this the strategy PG recommends, or the YC founders just think of it on their own? I think it's a bit too obvious to say that anyone "thought of it".
- mattmaroon 18y agoI don't think anyone pursues copyright infringement as a strategy, though they clearly turn a blind eye to it as one. I've never heard PG endorse this, but it's incredibly common in the Valley.
- goodkarma 18y ago>> seems the somewhat successful strategy for building content on these community apps is allowing either illegal or unscrupulous behavior to build traffic, and then nix it when you're big enough to survive on your own. I think that's purely coincidental. :)
- Jesin 18y agoIn an essay published in the Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams said something about how every new medium starts out as porn, and the other genres move in afterwards.