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I'm fascinated by what might happen in web-based services.
Will I really be able to hire a virtual guardian angel to look ahead of me when I'm travelling and warn me of an upcoming problem with my itinerary and advise me of a work-around?
Will such services be made cheap enough for general use by basing the service on mash-ups from multiple information sources?
Most of all I'm fascinated by the business model.
Who and how can someone make money from their invested time, knowledge and energy when each service appears quite easy to copy?
Who will invest in such schemes which are so difficult to protect?
I wonder if this business is not unlike the music business. A new band has a hit which achieves peak sales/downloads in quite a short time but, if the track is popular, a long tail of purchases continues. In the meantime the band makes more tracks in search of further hits; maybe reconfiguring into other bands along the way.
A successful web-based service provider will need to build a similar portfolio of popular services; maybe enough to attract investors who buy rights to exploit such services.
Maybe there are examples already?
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Posted by Vecta5Frank on 2008-07-11 08:13:51 | Rating: | Views: 30
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