The Web Should be Free, but Will it Stay That Way? … and Google Gets Burned
Business in Virtual Worlds | (2)
Greg Verdino has thrown a thought-piece that addresses the issue of what happens when dynamic and exciting - but most importantly free - Web platforms (Facebook, Twitter, del.cio.us, etc.) start needing cold, hard, cash.
Verdino offers up two options that seem fairly accurate. One is that the "users pay with their money," and the other is that "the users pay with their attention."
The intention of his post is to engage a discussion through the comments section of this blog entry. So, we scanned the comments and found that, in general, the commenters:
- Would not mind ads at all on most of ...