Tag: monetization
sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions
A new startup in Fediverse space offers a unique way for people to support their favorite creatives and builders on the network.
Mitchell Hashimoto - Founder of HashiCorp, Author of Terraform, and Thoughts of Open Source Monetization
Mitchell Hashimoto reflects on founding HashiCorp, creating Terraform, open source monetization challenges, and his passion for aviation.
The Great Platform Problem
In an era when every content platform wants to sell you the moon, going your own way is a valid option. For one thing, there’s no risk of “demonetization.”
The Progressive (Profitable) Web
Ryan Holiday laments the loss of Google Reader and RSS in general in Our Regressive Web, arguing that if someone came up with them today, we'd think they were brilliant ideas: We’re just regressing. [...] RSS is impervious to blogging’s worst, but most profitable traits. [...] No wonder nobody ever pushed for widespread adoption. Of course it died a slow death—along with Google Alerts and Delicious. Their mission is antithetical to the ethos of our new media age. Where noise, chatter and pushi
Community ownership and social networks as markets
Johannes Ernst just put me to shame by writing this blog post while sitting next to me at Elgg Camp San Francisco: [...] But there’s a stronger undertone from speaker after speaker talking about their projects. It’s about how the community wants and needs to own and control their social network (instead of just merely having a little section inside a worldwide social network). And how the community wouldn’t be as strong if they couldn’t. About the community needing to evolve the communication t
Patronism and monetizing the social web
This post is adapted from something I wrote on Google+. There are more comments over there; also see Evan Promodou's riff on the same idea. Google+'s combination of streams and circles works. So here's something I've been mulling over for a while: I really like Patronism's central idea. Rather than buying an album, you subscribe to an artist's feed, and get access to songs, photos etc as they're produced. That makes a lot more sense to me as a 21st century model for music. I also follow a lot
Social networking: beyond the silo
1. The rise of social networking 2. Monetization vs. collaboration 3. The open web 4. Fluid collaboration The rise of social networking Social forces have been the driving force behind application innovation on the web. Whereas previously we might have looked to advances in computer science for new directions, now some of the most dramatically impactful applications are lightweight, simple, and technologically unimpressive. The best new web applications have centered around collaboration,