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

[Michel Bauwens]

Sean in cc has a different perspective, retreating from using corporate web
2.0 services because of their unreliability and unsustainability,

Michel


On 4/28/09, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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