Elsewhere: My Review of the New Flickr at TechHive
The new Flickr: Goodbye customers, hello ads Flickr didn’t actually explain itself. It took away a core part of its…
If You Don’t Know How A Startup Will Make Money, Neither Do They
This, I hope, will remind people that the business plans of the startups they use are, indeed, their business. They should find out how the company is making money now and what their plans are in the future. They can then make an educated decision whether to participate or not. They can also judge the company by how well they keep their word.
I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” I don’t know who said it first, but the line has achieved a kind of supernatural resonance online. And for good reason – it describes a kind of modern internet company that provides a free service. These businesses are designed to aggregate a large number of users in order to sell that audience’s aggregate attention, usually in the form of advertising. But the more the line is repeated, the more it gets on my nerves.
What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?
What if we designed a social network to be small, self-supporting, and independent from the outset? How would it look, work, and feel? I bet it would come out looking nothing like the ones we’ve got now, the ones still trying to turn water into gold.
Fertile Medium
Heather and I have been avid Flickr members since the very beginning. So when Yahoo bought them and they started…