[p2p-research] article request on closing of online services

[Samuel Rose]

Part of such an article is covered by this:
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/03/terrific-survey-of-free-business-models-online.htmlor
at least if he had been able to show the fluctations over time,
instead
of just the conditions now.

So long as the business model is to try and create a land rush on free
services, in order to sell your company to a larger company, then we'll see
cycles of growth and decline, since giving all of this away for free was not
the goal of the service, but rather attracting an "audience" of users. The
"audience" is the "commodity" among the larger companies.

Some of the services just failed outright to attract that audience, while
others did, were sold off, and consolidated. This rapid change is reflective
of the nature of the network people itself. It really cannot be controlled,
contained, or confined for very long.




On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I wonder if no one would be interested in writing an article about the
> closure of online services by commercial companies, making the logic of p2p
> services quite strong,
>
> for example, before Geocities:  numerous other Web 2.0 services have been
> closing - Pownce, AOL's Homesteads, Yahoo's Jumpcut, Google's Lively, Google
> Video, Notebook & Jaiku
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