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The Future of Making Online Revenue?
e4 asks: "Let's see here: CNET and DoubleClick have patented banner ads. Amazon and LinkShare claim patents on affiliate programs. The Web essentially has an unlimited supply of advertising space, and demand from advertisers is pretty low, since the average click through rates are hovering around one percent. New products like Junkbuster are coming out all the time that help users block ads completely. Future prospects for ad-based revenue seem precarious. Venture capital may be drying up. The Internet community isn't too keen on fee-based services, and collecting and selling mailing lists, demographics and other bad mojo will get you blacklisted in a heartbeat. So how will information-based Web sites (especially smaller, independent ones) be generating revenue in five years? What will the business model be? Or will these sites just start to wither and die like neglected petunias in Phoenix?"