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How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?
by va_coder 14y ago
How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?
- Estragon 14y agoMost social activity generates no revenue. It's tragic that we are moving towards a society which sees every relationship as mediated by economic utility.
- fusiongyro 14y agoThat's reading a bit much into it. We are talking about a business here, even if their product deals with social activity.
- shmerl 14y agoIt shouldn't be a business. It should be a sustainable project. The moment you make it a business, it looses its core value - "by users, for users". That said, the project needs to sustain development and growth of course. The difference is in the goal. Business' goal is to make money, and it's driven by for profit reasons. Such kind of project's goal should be to make a good (user oriented, privacy protecting and so on) social network, and it should be driven by that reason.
- tg3 14y agoAnd yet almost all businesses/organizations that facilitate human social activity extract some sort of profit: the postal service, telephone companies, ISPs, bars/pubs, and churches (for the cynic), to name a few.
- pgeorgi 14y agoMaybe selling boxes to run at home, and an encrypted backup and proxy service tied in? (proxy for larger data like videos to share with peers)
- mrbill 14y agoBy begging for more donations, just like last time they burned through what was it, $100K, without anything substantial to show for it?
- rdl 14y agoIf they can get wide adoption, they could easily monetize tools and services, even if the standard is open, and anyone can run his own server. examples include: email. web. voip. etc.