Comments on: What if online business model innovation is slowing down?

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By: chang

chang — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:55:46 +0000

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By: Making Money Digitally | YO BRO IT'S ME LITTY

Making Money Digitally | YO BRO IT'S ME LITTY — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:33:14 +0000

[...] Dixon wonders what happens if this is it for digital business innovation? What happens if all these breakthrough platforms end up monetizing in a similar fashion as AOL [...]

By: marshallclark

marshallclark — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:31:58 +0000

Google was a bit of a one-time case and I think their RPM success will be impossible to replicate as long as keyword search remains the dominant research method for online purchases.

That said, research shows that user reviews are highly influential to many purchase decisions, particularly when the review comes from the consumer's own network.

I'm an avid student of the intersection of Search and the Social Graph and can't help thinking the next generation of Search will probably come from this crossbreeding. Maybe the next generation of Google-caliber intent harvesting will follow?

Some of my recent thoughts on the topic:
Docs are Old School, We Need PageRank for People
http://bit.ly/128U9V

By: marshallclark

marshallclark — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:18:13 +0000

“Without disagreeing with you about Twitter's ability to make money right now, what I wonder about is why, if they can make money right now, they choose not to?”

I'm thinking it relates to their perceived value – it's tough to justify a $1B+ valuation when you're only bringing in $20M in ad revenue.

By: chris dixon

chris dixon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:47:01 +0000

this will look insightful or more likely silly 10 years from now.

By: Kishore A K

Kishore A K — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:38:13 +0000

Setting up a Google Calender event to revisit this post ten years henceforth, with subject “Will Facebook ever make Google kind of revenue?”, to find out exactly how silly or insightful it may sound then.

Until then, like Vijaya Sagar comments above we continue to do what we love to do.

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:16:43 +0000

I don't think we understand the internet as a medium at all yet. even if it has many users, this is a very fresh medium. Abnormally fresh.

Let's put it this way: I'm an art student. In traditional critique language, is this post 2d (because it appears on a flat screen) or 4d (because there will be time delays with any response)?
Next, is this world a medium of images- there are lots of images here? Text- lots of text? Where does code fit in?

How fully realized are you, and how fully plastic are you here?

Where are individuals, particularly average non-techie webbie whatever individuals conception of home on the internet? How about work on the internet? Is there a difference? What if there isn't? What if there is? How do we perceive the tools we use to access it?

We've barely grappled with these questions. (I do my fare share of reading.) Once we start attacking at the idea of people and internet and space and how we intermix these ideas, we'll have a variety of new ways to rethink a whole lot of these models.

In the meantime- where is my front door on the internet?

By: rafer

rafer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:19:47 +0000

In other, generally non-digital, media, incumbent lock up led to innovation slowing. Incumbent lockup is a lot tougher to create and more transient in this case.

By: chris dixon

chris dixon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:36:39 +0000

thx! interesting post.