No successful web property is an island. Skweezer could never have been envisioned and built if that were not so. Once upon a time people were pretty upset about what we were doing: building a service that depended on the content of other websites that wasn’t a search engine. Fast forward to 2006: Web 2.0 is all about the community, the web ecosystem, the blogosphere. If we work together, we can do more than we could apart. You can adjust your business model to make money even while giving things away. Viva la network!
Mashups are cool, but when it comes to capitalizing on those interdependencies in a way that pays the bills, people are already thinking about the new business models that support it. Via Programmable Web I found this article on mashup business models and also a link to a discussion about it at Mashup Camp.
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