Posts Tagged with ‘ZDNet’

The never-ending love of the blogosphere to the issue of linking to other blogs and failing to link when you really-really should is just plain amazing to me - we seem to never get tired of the entire meme and there is always some blogger or reporter who forgets to link back to the source where a link is due - and it starts all over again. Or a blogger does not link back intentionally - and it gets even [...]

Should we expect everything on the Web to be free? Is anything really free even on ad supported sites? I was reading a post on the AuditorumA blog today - dealing with these very questions - and I think it is about time we wrestled with free versus paid as models for monetization. I have talked with AuditoriumA's CEO Tony Mars on a couple of occasions and I reviewed his upscale human search site last month. Tony makes some valid [...]

I’ll be honest. Apart from the odd link on Digg, I never visit AOL. I’m sure it’s a descent place to visit as far as Web portals go. I doubt it offers any worse an experience than Yahoo! or MSN, anyhow. Today, I ventured there once again. A Reuters piece published on ZDNet highlighted some changes at AOL News, and so I went. No particular story to read there. Just paid a visit. And, you know, it wasn’t so bad.
It [...]

Up until this week, Bambi Francisco was a technology columnist for MarketWatch. She isn't there any longer, because of several articles calling her out as having a conflict of interest.
While Bambi was at MarketWatch, she started a small company in her free time called Vator.tv, a video-sharing site where entrepreneurial hopefuls can submit video pitches about their ideas that will hopefully grab the attention of VCs. Vator.tv was started with the blessing of her boss, David Calloway, Editor-in-Chief, [...]

"During a recent interview with Podtech's Maryam Scoble, Mary Jo Foley revealed that ZDNet has a payment scheme in place that rewards its bloggers based on the number of clicks their posts get. Foley recently left Ziff Davis to become a free agent. Her primary gig involves writing a well-read blog on Microsoft for ZDNet, which CNET owns. Foley says she likes the pay-for-performance model because "It rewards people… who do a lot of work to make sure that their [...]

Profiting from social networks may require outside the box thinking!
Reuters — London, January 15, 2007 - According to this latest release, user generated video sites may be facing big problems with their cash flow. Massively successful sites like YouTube and MySpace , sporting millions of video clips, only generated about $200 million in 2006. What sounds like a big profit might not be as much as we think!
Screen Digest, a market research analysis company, predicts that by 2010 - [...]