August, 2000 Posts
The Great Yahoo Money Machine
I am pessimistic on the web advertising business model that most Internet companies operate from. However, I am optimistic with the same model with Yahoo. The reason is that Yahoo has higher traffic than competitors and so it can charge higher ad rates. Yahoo has some of the highest rated and most liked sites on [...]
Stephen King’s new online book may encourage others to follow
Stephen King recently announced that the latest progress in his latest novel will be available for download for $1. However, what Stephen King has done is instead of having every user pay before they download, he goes on the goodwill system where you can download and pay later. By doing this, he has created a [...]
Napster Almost Shutdown
Napster was recently ordered to shutdown and the order was taken back. We all know Napsters weakness is that it connects users over a central server system which can be shutdown, which almost happened. Gnutella and others don't have central servers, but rather the software communicates to other users using users, unique, IP addresses [...]