Comments on: Paying for Web 2.0 Services

By: Alterion

Alterion — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:23:10 +0000

none.. though i think i am in the minority. However the file-shring generation has become used to not paying for things on thier pc’s.. i’d pay for firefox and i think if i had a proper blo i’d pay for wordpress.. (maybe i’d pay for searchfox if they filtered duplicates.. but don;t tell them!.. and they wouldn;t make money from it becuse most people don’t “get” searchfox) but i funny that only those that have been free and had their credentials proved though exhaustive use ect

By: Artem

Artem — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:53:25 +0000

I pay only to Web 1.0 companies: fastmail.fm for their excellent mail service, and My hosting company. I would be willing pay to bloglines and furl.net around 5$ a month.

By: Isaac Garcia

Isaac Garcia — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:18:18 +0000

Businesses are paying for commercial wikis and collaboration software:

Central Desktop
Basecamp
Socialtext
Jotspot
Zimbra

None of us have high revenues, but its early in the game still. Also, how “high” was Flicker’s revenue? Exactly.

The real scale in “web 2.0″ companies will be realized when the business markets start adopting wikis and other collaborative platforms (web group calendaring). Its starting, but we’ve all got a long way to go.

By: Scott Kingery

Scott Kingery — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:59:34 +0000

If the web was the bread and butter of my life, I’d pay for Feedburner. The metrics don’t mean all that much to me a the moment.
Really should get Scoble to use it.
http://lookleap.com/techlifeblogged.blogspot.com/a1

By: maryann@kartlink.com

maryann@kartlink.com — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:35:04 +0000

Also I’ll be paying for Feedburner once I start advertising in my feeds and it becomes worth it.

By: maryann@kartlink.com

maryann@kartlink.com — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:33:47 +0000

I think the message is that people won’t pay for things that are “just” fun. I like last.fm (for example) a lot, but I’m not caused enough pain by the free version to get my card out.

I need FlickrPro and FeedDigest for my professional site (I’ll also pay for MeasureMap when it launches), but for a personal site I wouldn’t bother at all.

By: Daniel Nerezov

Daniel Nerezov — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:58:25 +0000

FeedDigest.com. Best money I ever spent…and will be spending for a long time.

By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:58:22 +0000

I agree, FeedBurner is definitely a company to watch. FeedBurner has a near monopoly on the feeds industry and they are based out of my hometown, Chicago. Who’d of thought? I think that their recently created feed ad network with time is going to be the Google Adsense of feeds. With print publishing circulations in question, an interest by publishers to measure circulation on the Internet will increase as publishing companies continue to add more offerings online. FeedBurner strength is in its metrics, they offer an excellent metrics package to help convey the readership and essentially the value of items in a feed. For some recent Somewhat Frank posts on FeedBurner check out: http://www.somewhatfrank.com/feedburner/index.html

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:16:15 +0000

I pay for Flickr Pro, and (if it wasn’t free, so noone tell them please) I would be prepared to pay for rss.searchfox.com.

By: Michael Air

Michael Air — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:48:36 +0000

Funny you mention this as it’s been troubling me for a while. All these great services coming out but in general, we don’t want to pay for them. There is still a fairly large paradigm shift needed before any kind of main stream adoption happens.