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Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Morten Blaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:35:10 -0000

Barney, what do you mean?

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Barney Moran — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:21:58 -0000

Hey Morten,

You currently have the best Pro Lijit response to date and its duly noted.

Have you considered doing PR for Lijit? They could certainly use you!

Barney,

P.U.B.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Morten Blaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:30:52 -0000

Now check out DJ kaplak : http://blip.fm/DJkaplak :-)

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Morten Blaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:00:02 -0000

Terrific stuff, that DJ site :-) I love it !! Excellent choice of music, too. Good to see you here, Terris !

Several times this summer I've been concerned with putting our data on proprietary services with architectures beyond our own control, such as Twitter. It has been a long winded concern, but was further provoked by Twitter prohibiting me access to my own data (everything beyond 200 tweets in my back catalogue - which is about 80% of my/our Twitter activity). Now, Twitter has opened up again, but it remains a deep concern of mine the way we enthrust web services with "our" data.

Now, as I explore deeper what public feeds entail, I'm less worried. As long as the service offers ways to feed/export data, users remain in control. What we need to work at, then, is improve the feeds and make it easier to extract the information we need from them.

Facebook and other such architectures which offer no feeds/export still present a lot of problems, however.

Re: blip.fm and revenue models : Wouldn't they get a cut of all the songs "sold" from their site? Say 95% of listeners don't pay, but 5% buy a song, from which blip.fm earns a dime?

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Terris Linenbach — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:06:15 -0000

I stopped blogging on my own site (terris.com) which I was getting ad revenue from (believe it or not), and I now mostly microblog. Which means I'm not making a dime.

And now I'm a DJ! http://blip.fm/terris

So, the video you posted is dead on, and we're in year 3 of his predicted 50 years of chaos.

identi.ca, twitter, and blip.fm have NO REVENUE MODEL.

So google had better f-ing figure this out.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Morten Blaabjerg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:16:42 -0000

Barney, thank you for that note. I'm not so sure there really is a lot revenue there yet to share, as Lijit has yet to find a suitable business model, IMHO. Offering premium services aimed at businesses seems to me a far more promising road to go than putting Google Ads in search results, but only Lijit knows for sure.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

Barney Moran — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:02 -0000

Publisher's Union of Bloggers currently recommends Publishers hold off on use of the Lijit Widget on their site pending review of Lijit's promised forthcoming disclosure on its revenue sharing plan for unique Publishers.

Once P.U.B. has reviewed Lijit's plan when released, we will update our recommendation for Publishers accordingly.

Thanks for this post,

Barney Moran,

Founder, P.U.B.