Bell Labs (now Lucent) show that breaking up a monopoly won't destroy innovation as Steve Ballmer will try to tell you. If anything, Bell Labs is more productive today than it was thirty years ago, when it was still trying to figure out how to rig statistics to show why it was economically unfeasible for consumers to own their own telephones. If you break a company up into little bits as AT&T was (and as Microsoft should be), then the innovative bits will thrive.
There was an interesting case study about it a while back. But was several years ago, and on a much smaller project. Now that Disney's getting into the action, Python will be more palatable to other suits.
The big will prosper and eat the small. Once the small are gone and
the number of available locations for banner placements has shrunk and
the aggregate eyeballs are focused on fewer pages
the few big remaining sites will be more prosperous than ever. Right now there's a whole lot of supply and not so much demand. The demand is growing (albeit more slowly than people imagined) and the supply is about to fall off precipitously.
People will not buy subscriptions unless they're for specialty services or bundles.
Kuro5hin has an interesting piece on the economics of ad revenues. The bottom line is banner revenues can be sufficient for profit potential if you play your cards right. Popular sites like slashdot have a high enough CPM to stay more than just afloat. I'm surprised Yahoo hasn't been able to say the same.
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Bell Labs (now Lucent) show that breaking up a monopoly won't destroy innovation as Steve Ballmer will try to tell you. If anything, Bell Labs is more productive today than it was thirty years ago, when it was still trying to figure out how to rig statistics to show why it was economically unfeasible for consumers to own their own telephones. If you break a company up into little bits as AT&T was (and as Microsoft should be), then the innovative bits will thrive.
There was an interesting case study about it a while back. But was several years ago, and on a much smaller project. Now that Disney's getting into the action, Python will be more palatable to other suits.
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- the number of available locations for banner placements has shrunk and
- the aggregate eyeballs are focused on fewer pages
the few big remaining sites will be more prosperous than ever. Right now there's a whole lot of supply and not so much demand. The demand is growing (albeit more slowly than people imagined) and the supply is about to fall off precipitously.People will not buy subscriptions unless they're for specialty services or bundles.
Kuro5hin has an interesting piece on the economics of ad revenues. The bottom line is banner revenues can be sufficient for profit potential if you play your cards right. Popular sites like slashdot have a high enough CPM to stay more than just afloat. I'm surprised Yahoo hasn't been able to say the same.