Why does everything suck?
The Money Losing Conundrum of Twitter and Other Communications Apps. I’ve been wondering myself when the metaphoric yachts of the big players will lose interest in purchasing such little outboard motors. They use fuel but don’t necessarily add to the major thrust of the ship. Eventually they’ll stop buying ‘em, because they’re pure drag and no revenue. How many times have we heard that ad revenue will drive these neat little apps? More and more, ad revenue seems like a house of cards waiting to collapse. It can’t support every keen idea out there.
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it’s only my opinion, no research to back it, but i also think advertising as a revenue model for online businesses is not viable, and will become less viable.
but innovation is not going to stop. new sites, new apps, will continue to be developed.
so how does this play out? i had an insight yesterday walking through a buddhist antique store in bangkok.... so many incredible, powerful, mystical creations, thousands of hours of work, great depth of feeling, and i realized it was all uncompensated labor.... the structure of society was different, and one of the shifts we could see in the near future is a return to this kind of structure, where the value of work, was the work, independent of money…
that would be disruptive, at least to the existing structure, but maybe not to quality of life