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Yahoo! Kimo upgrades mailbox service
Yahoo! Kimo upgrades mailbox service
06/16/2004 10:46 PMeTaiwanNews.com Jun 17 2004 3:25AM GMT
Yahoo! Kimo awards winners of 'Let Your
Email Talk' contest
Yahoo! Kimo awards winners of 'Let Your
Email Talk' contest
12/12/2003 03:17 AMeTaiwanNews.com Dec 12 2003 1:47AM ET
Yahoo Bolsters Small Business Plans
Yahoo Bolsters Small Business Plans
08/17/2004 07:10 AMThe company enters the market for low-cost domain-name registration as
it expands storage and bandwidth across its Web-hosting products.
Yahoo Scraps Business Instant Messenger
Plans
Yahoo Scraps Business Instant Messenger
Plans
06/20/2004 04:07 PMRed Nova Jun 20 2004 7:38PM GMT
Nortel plans big shift in marketing
strategy
Nortel plans big shift in marketing
strategy
08/19/2004 11:06 PMglobetechnology.com Aug 20 2004 3:16AM GMT
Bush Plans to Shift U.S. Troops from
Europe, Asia (Reuters)
Bush Plans to Shift U.S. Troops from
Europe, Asia (Reuters)
08/16/2004 01:47 PMReuters - President Bush on Monday announced
plans to bring home up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia
within a decade in a major realignment that Democrats said was
politically motivated in an election year.
IBM Unveils Server-Based Software Model
IBM Unveils Server-Based Software Model
05/10/2004 03:04 PMThe company aims to take on Microsoft with its new middleware, which
extends applications to virtually any client a customer chooses.
Siemens plans shift of software
developers to lower-cost countries
Siemens plans shift of software
developers to lower-cost countries
12/12/2003 04:20 PMSiliconValley.com Dec 12 2003 2:53PM ET
RSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS
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Search Sands Shift as Yahoo! Prepares to
Drop Google
Search Sands Shift as Yahoo! Prepares to
Drop Google
01/07/2004 07:06 PMYahoo!'s (Quote, Chart) expected algorithmic search switch from Google
to Inktomi will come in the next few months, according to search
engine marketing execs ...
Blinkx Plans Ad Model for Desktop/Web
Search Tool
Blinkx Plans Ad Model for Desktop/Web
Search Tool
07/02/2004 06:09 PMSource: ClickZ - A 10-employee San Francisco-based search company is
raising eyebrows with a tool that does what the big boys are still
only planning: combining desktop search with Web search....
Plaxo Business Model
Plaxo Business Model
05/24/2004 12:50 PMPlaxo is out trying to explain they have a business model and are
addressing privacy concerns. A premium service at $20/month that
includes support and, well, what else they are not saying or don't
know yet. Techdirt: They're basically saying...
Plaxo Does Have A Business Model... But
Not Really
Plaxo Does Have A Business Model... But
Not Really
05/24/2004 03:05 AMI'll admit that I have
not
been kind to Plaxo in the past. Ever since the service was first
announced, it sounded like a bubble era pointless dot com. There was
a lot of hype about the young founder (previously founded Napster!)
and the "service" itself didn't seem like much of a product. At most,
it was a feature of a larger product, and that larger product might
just turn out to be something like Microsoft Outlook. If the system
was remotely useful, you would think that Microsoft would just build
it in to Outlook. However, it didn't even seem that useful. If
anything, I expected it to be annoying - and has it ever been
annoying. I now block all Plaxo requests, but for a while, the amount
of Plaxo spam was ridiculous. Then, of course, there's the privacy
question. While Plaxo now goes to great lengths to swear up and down
that they keep your info private, they don't seem to understand the
real privacy complaint: when your friends give
your address to
some 3rd party service,
are
they violating your privacy? It's a question that's not entirely
clear. In the meantime, this was all made worse by the fact that
Plaxo still didn't have anything remotely resembling a business model
(shades of the bubble era again...). Well, now they claim they've
solved that issue, and have announced that their business model is a
$20/year paid version for which
you'll get such great features as... well, they actually don't seem to
know yet. You will get better
customer support though. It
always worries me when companies decide that better customer support
is a premium "feature," because they've just set up the incentives to
mean that they give the absolute worst customer support to anyone not
in that tier. This doesn't seem particularly compelling. They're
basically saying their new business model is that they'll annoy me
less if I pay? No thanks...
Plaxo's business model
Plaxo's business model
05/24/2004 01:46 AMStart-up
Plaxo sketches out business plan [CNET News.com - The Net]
OK - so now we know.
Whenever I've received an invitation to join Plaxo or to update my
profile info, I've used as an excuse - the nebulous answers that Plaxo
has given in the past as to their business model.
Well I guess I'll have to find a different excuse now.
I actually like the business model - charge for more advanced
features - but the only feature they mentioned in this article was
"better customer support". That actually sounds like a charge
for support" business model. HHmmm maybe they should talk to
Dave Sifry about that.
But then again - they only want $20 a year. Geesh. It
costs more to look at naked pictures. I guess they think lots of
people will sign-up - but if it's like any other service, they'll
only convert 5%.
So what's 5% of 2M? 100k users. Times $20 a year.
That $2M a year.
Geesh hasn't Plaxo raised like over $20M now - or something like
that?
What's wrong with the math here?
Overstock's Business Model
Overstock's Business Model
02/17/2004 01:15 PMHow does the company make money selling books and CDs at cost?
"Business Model" Explained
"Business Model" Explained
06/24/2004 08:07 AMTwo companies might do the same thing, but with very different
business models.
Into the valley of the Business Model -
yee shall go
Into the valley of the Business Model -
yee shall go
04/14/2005 03:33 PMMeetUp is now charging for organizing MeetUps.
$19 a month. I wonder how they came up with that number?
Jason
Lefkowitz reports his feelings on this.
One good thing they did - they put their faces next to
what they describe as "the bad news". Me - I don't consider it bad
news.
There's a time for every social experiment to grow up, smell the
mustard and get real. MeetUp has - congreats!
The Blogware business model
The Blogware business model
07/07/2004 02:41 AMI've been trying to get to know Roland Tanglao and Boris Mann and their company
Streamline. Here's
an interesting post I found on Roland's blog about Blogware's
business model..
Here's Roland......
A must read for prospective Blogware resellers and for
bloggers and people who don't understand why Blogware is not being
heavily promoted by Tucows. Summary: it's all about the resellers.
Resellers made Tucows #2 in domain registration and similarly
resellers will make Blogware a big player in the hosted blog
space.
From An
Open Letter to Blog Sceptic:
QUOTE
5/3/2/1. Ditch the
resellers/launch a hosted version/offer to specific verticals/promote
it...
Never gonna happen.
Here's why: Internet services providers represent the most
powerful distribution channel on the internet. No single company can
compete with the marketing muscle of 30,000 ISPs** who sit right in
front of end-users and assist them in making critical technology
choices and guide them as they dive into the internet - usually for
the first time. No other channel can put you in front of individuals
and the Fortune 500 simultaneously and no channel can better address
the fickle needs of their local markets in a more appropriate
fashion.
To get a better sense of this, take a look at our track record with
domain names. In 1997, we were (according to the most liberal
definitions) #85 in the domain name registration market. Today we are
solidly #2 and we've been there for a couple of years. How did we get
here? We dealt exclusively with internet services providers to the
exclusion of all other market opportunities and we nailed their
service requirements. By choosing and sticking to our distribution
model very early in the game (some would argue that it chose us) we
were able to focus on very specific attributes of our products and
processes and build some truly excellent structures around everything.
In other words, because we weren't trying to be all things to all
customers, we were able to do some very amazing things with some very
specific customer segments. And they responded in spades.
Our resellers kick serious a*s in the market place. This because
the Tucows way of doing things gives them the luxury of being able
to focus on very specific and important things. Think of every other
blogging company out there. They each have to a) be technical experts,
b) be sales experts and c) be marketing experts just to one unit to a
customer. Now take a look at the symbiotic nature of the relationship
between Tucows and its direct customers. Our resellers have to be
sales & marketing experts and develop strong customer service
skills and Tucows has to focus on maintaining world-class technical
services. Who would you bet on, the jack-of-all-trades or the team of
specialists?
The downside to this approach is that it lacks the glitz and glam
that retail oriented services employ. You will never see a full out PR
blitz from Tucows and Blogware will never be a household name. All
wasted money. Remember, we're not the marketing brains in this
relationship. We're the technical muscle.
Does that mean that our resellers are idly sitting by doing
nothing? Nope. Right now, they are working on developing the right
messages to direct at very specific markets - some are doing the
institutional angle, some are going after telecommunications firms,
others are targetting specific home-user verticals and others still
looking to make quick wins at the expense of those with existing
market share... And what I've seen so far looks great. Think of this
as true "end-to-end marketing" Marketing at the edges. Clue-train
compatible distribution. Teamwork. Focus. Whatever you call it, it
works.
UNQUOTE
Attacking the Spammer Business Model
Attacking the Spammer Business Model
11/17/2003 07:47 PMStephen Samuel asks: "Spammers spam because it's an 'easy way to make
money'. They send out millions of spams knowing that 99.995% of them
will be ignored, but ...
The business model of the funny pages
The business model of the funny pages
12/04/2003 08:23 PM When I was in college in the early 90s (B.W. -- before web), I used
to subscribe to the daily newspaper just to get my comics fix every
morning (back when Bill Waterson, Gary Larson, and Berkeley Breathed
were king). Then the web came along and I had to suffer through
the only (unfunny)
cartoonist to embrace the web. But not anymore. With stuff like
Comics-via-RSS and
Comictastic I can fire up an app
and start laughing every morning. I doubt I ever buy a newspaper again
for the funny pages, and on top of that, these even let me avoid
the lame ones I don't care
about.
an alternate business model for gmail
an alternate business model for gmail
04/14/2004 05:12 PMnext, jason's going to start selling blogger accounts
AXA challenges Google's business model
AXA challenges Google's business model
04/26/2004 11:03 PMSydney Morning Herald Apr 27 2004 3:40AM GMT
New Business Model, Or Smoke And
Mirrors?
New Business Model, Or Smoke And
Mirrors?
04/08/2005 06:26 PMJonathan Schwartz of Sun is out giving his talk again about how
subscription fees are the way of the future for buying
anything. One of his favorite examples (he's used it for quite
some time) is that people will
buy
cars the way they buy mobile phones, where the device/car itself
is free or close to fee, but there's a regular subscription fee that's
locked in (he also likes to talk about how people will download
"horn-tones" for their car, but that's a different story). He goes on
to point out that for a car, this fee would be $220 -- noting that the
carmakers have already thought about this. Beyond asking the obvious
question (um
which car are we talking about here -- because I
imagine that a BMW is going to cost me more per month than a Hyundai),
isn't this
already how many people buy cars? It's called a
loan or a lease. They buy the car with a little bit of money down,
but pay regularly to cover the rest of the cost of the car. In fact,
I'm sure, for some people and some cars, the amount is somewhere
around $220. So, this isn't particularly amazing. It's not even new.
It's just taking an existing business model and changing what you
call everything. Who knew it was so easy to be considered a
visionary?
Meetup About Business Model Lessons
Meetup About Business Model Lessons
04/13/2005 02:55 PMMeetup Inc. become something of an internet darling during the
US
Presidential campaigns, after people started using it for
political organizing. The concept was straight-forward. Use the web
to find like-minded individuals in a certain area who could (yup)
"meet up" in person. What was unclear from the beginning, though, was
how Meetup was ever going to make money. Originally, the plan was to
get money out of the venues where the various meetups occurred.
Apparently, that didn't work out, and now, Meetup is making news for
its decision to charge each "group" $19/month to
keep going. They certainly expect to lose many of their groups, and
lots of people are already noting that the price
seems quite
steep for what were mostly small, informal gatherings. The real
issue, though, is that it looks like Meetup has forgotten the first
rule of internet-based business models: don't charge for something
that was free before. It's very, very difficult to make that work
(there are a few small exceptions). Generally speaking, though, if
people expect something to be free, suddenly turning around and
charging for it is seen as swiping the rug out from under them. They
embraced your offering, in part, because it was free. You
can
charge for new and additional services -- but pissing off most of your
users with surprise fees, after being sold on the free idea, tends to
come back to bite many companies that have tried it. If anything, it
tends to encourage competition to come in and offer what you used to
offer... for free.
A new business model, driven by consumer
needs
A new business model, driven by consumer
needs
02/15/2004 01:03 AMBoston Globe Feb 15 2004 5:15AM GMT
IM Interoperability: It's the Business
Model, Stupid
IM Interoperability: It's the Business
Model, Stupid
08/09/2004 11:40 PMMicrosoft's recent deal with the three major IM services demonstrates
that business dealings, not competing technology protocols, are
driving the big battle for interoperability.
A Business Model For WiFi Aggregation
A Business Model For WiFi Aggregation
01/09/2004 09:50 PMRobert X. Cringely's latest column discusses
his idea
for a killer WiFi aggregator business model that makes some sense
- but could be very difficult from some significant reasons. He
correctly points out the problems with current WiFi aggregator
business models: they have way too little coverage and way too many
players have their hands in the pie. For each dollar spent at a
hotspot, a portion needs to go to the hotspot owner, the owner of the
network and the aggregator (and potentially others) - and there just
isn't that much money being spent at hotspots in the first place. His
solution is that we need more hotspots, and the way to get more
hotspots is to give away the equipment free. Basically, have a
company that will give you free WiFi equipment in exchange for adding
your hotspot to their network
and giving you free access to the
entire network. This way, he believes, an aggregator would quickly
get to one million hotspots and pretty much guarantee the necessary
level of coverage. The money, then, would come from others who pay
the subscription fee to get on the network - and since the coverage is
so great, and the aggregator no longer needs to share that revenue
with the hotspots, people will be willing to pay up. Maybe. I'm
certainly a fan of leveraging "free" in a promotion to build a
business model, but not when that "free" is very costly. In order to
get this going, the company would need to give away those million
access points (and, probably, handle tech support for them) before
they start making money. While you can bet they'd get a volume
discount (and APs are getting cheaper every day), it's still a pretty
big capital chunk to eat. Then, there are two other big problems I
see. First, which he brushes off, most internet providers say sharing
your connection is a violation of terms of service. Sure, there's the
Speakea
sy exception, but it's still not too common, and I'm not so
convinced (as Cringely is) that they'll just rollover when they find
out what's happening. The second problem is much more fundamental. I
now have two choices if I want to use this fairly vast network of
access points: (1) pay a monthly fee or (2) offer to host my own
hotspot - where I get free equipment and free service. Guess what I'm
going to do? Is there any reason not to get their free equipment just
to get free access everywhere else? Who are the suckers who are
actually going to pay for this service instead of just signing up to
be a provider?
Online Business Model for a Band?
Online Business Model for a Band?
04/02/2005 04:02 PMMicrosoft Plans Sustained Content Model
for Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Plans Sustained Content Model
for Windows Server 2003
03/19/2003 10:25 PMVOIP will change the business model of
the Bells
VOIP will change the business model of
the Bells
11/13/2003 03:08 AMIt may not happen this year or next but VOIP is going to start having
a serious impact on the...
Model your business processes using
using BPML (XML Journal)
Model your business processes using
using BPML (XML Journal)
07/17/2002 01:55 AMLinkedIn finally launches their business
model
LinkedIn finally launches their business
model
02/01/2005 08:42 PM
After 18 months - at 1.7 people Reid Hoffman is finally revealing
his plan in a preview of his LinkedInsight jobs system.
Good luck Reid!
The Phantom Looking More Real, New
Business Model Still Questionable
The Phantom Looking More Real, New
Business Model Still Questionable
05/10/2004 01:30 PMAs expected, Infinium Labs is using E3 as its coming out party to
prove that they do, in fact, have a product. You may recall this is
the company that has faced
lots of
doubt about whether or not its gaming console really existed. The
company started to look a bit more respectable by hiring a CEO who
helped develop the X-Box, but quickly lost a lot of goodwill by suing
one of the sites that questioned the legitimacy of the company.
Now, they're making a big push to prove that they exist. Wired News
has an article about the company saying that instead of pushing it as
competition to gaming consoles, they're
targeting
"occasional" or "lapsed" gamers and offering the system as a
service. That is, if you agree to pay $30/month for two years you get
the hardware "free" and access to the basic level of downloadable
games they offer. Of course, it's not really free, but the hardware
fee is baked into that monthly fee. Of course, it looks like
they
still don't have any publishers officially signed up. The games
they're displaying at E3 are only for display at E3 and might not
actually be available when the device/service launches in November.
As anyone in the gaming business will tell you, if you don't have good
publishers signed up early, the gaming device will fail. Infinium
seems to believe they'll be able to sign up enough publishers now that
they can demonstrate the device publicly and build some buzz. You'll
also notice that the box looks entirely different than it did just a
few months back when people were doubting that it really existed.
More importantly, you have to wonder about the business model and the
target market. They say they don't want hardcore gamers, because
they'll already have a console and a PC with all the games they want.
However, you have to wonder why the occasional or lapsed gamer wants
to pay $30/month if they don't really play games that often. On top
of this, the games they'll offer at that basic level of service are
older games. As Infinium points out, this may help get publishers on
board by offering them a new revenue stream for old games, but that
also means that your offering users
old games. I guess they're
hoping that these lapsed video gamers won't notice that they're
playing old games, but it doesn't seem like the most compelling pitch
to a lapsed gamer: come back to gaming, but get locked into a two
year, $30/month contract, and we'll let you play a few old games that
you can probably pick up for a couple dollars in the bargain bin!
eBay's Business Model Patent Mess
Returns
eBay's Business Model Patent Mess
Returns
03/17/2005 03:26 AMIn 2002, someone who claimed he came up with the idea for online
auctions and patented it before eBay existed
sued
the company for patent infringement. As we pointed out at the
time, this was exactly what patents were not supposed to do. Here's a
case where different people came up with similar ideas. One actually
did something with it and built a real company, while the other
didn't do anything with it at all, other than run to the patent
office. Yet, the company that did something gets sued. That
discourages companies from actually innovating. The companies that
really do something open themselves up to lawsuits. While a court
later tossed out the online auction patent for being too vague, they
did
award
the guy nearly $30 million for his patent on "direct buying"
online (yes, he actually patented that). Both sides appealed, and the
court has found that, not only did eBay violate the direct buy patent,
but it's
bringing back the online auction patent as well, saying a
lower court needs to check that out again.
Seeing the graphs from the trees - the
business model of the web is the same as
its underlying structure
Seeing the graphs from the trees - the
business model of the web is the same as
its underlying structure
03/14/2005 04:33 PMIt seems like a small thing, but day after day I can't help thinking
that there is a distinct pattern...
YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY
PROBLEM sticker/tee design
YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY
PROBLEM sticker/tee design
04/12/2005 11:50 AMCory Doctorow:
This sticker/t-shirt design -- YOUR FAILED BUSINESS MODEL IS NOT MY
PROBLEM, with a Creative Communist logo -- is pretty sweet.
Link
(
via Akma)
Strong business model key to Dell's
striking evolution
Strong business model key to Dell's
striking evolution
09/22/2004 06:36 AMFinancial Post Sep 22 2004 10:26AM GMT
Suit targets heart of Google business
model
Suit targets heart of Google business
model
04/25/2004 11:33 PMBoston Globe Apr 26 2004 4:17AM GMT
Micropayment Company Adjust Business
Model Away From The Internet
Micropayment Company Adjust Business
Model Away From The Internet
06/28/2004 05:22 AMWe've discussed multiple times why
micro
payments are overhyped for content online. Despite being told
repeatedly by companies in the space that this time will be different,
it looks like one such company (Peppercoin - which has been one of the
loudest defenders of the "age of micropayments") is already
discovering they need to
adjust their business model. The cool thing about the way
Peppercoin works is that it basically aggregates a bunch of purchases
and creates a "representative sample" to lower the transaction fee
paid to the credit card provider. The problem with using Peppercoin
for internet content is the fact that most people don't want to pay
for content -- especially when there are other options and
the
mental transaction costs are high. However, that doesn't change
the fact that Peppercoin reduces credit card fees -- which
is
useful if only applied to a market where people already are
willing to pay for things. So, that appears to be where Peppercoin is
headed: away from internet transactions (though, they still claim that
this will be a big space) and towards real world situations where tiny
transactions rule, such as arcades.
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