Tuesday, August 10, 2004

RSS and Business Models: Everyone Is Talking.... A lot of talk lately about how to make money off RSS. And well there should be, it's more than half of most popular blogs' traffic, and so far it's avoided any pat approach to monetization. Scoble discusses the topic again over at his site, and points to a meme that I've been kicking around with a few folks, including Andrew over at Six Apart and some others. Scoble: So, there's the condundrum. How do we serve the "users" and the "branders" at the same time? Simple: we need a new advertising model. Content providers should have a way to get paid for linking to things. Actually, Amazon.com is showing the way here. Its associates program is paying webloggers back for linking to Amazon. That's... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 8:39:43 PM    comment []