{"id":132,"date":"2007-02-19T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2007-02-19T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T09:58:07","slug":"wheres-the-business-model-in-web-20-dont-ask-mywebalert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/132-wheres-the-business-model-in-web-20-dont-ask-mywebalert.html","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the business model in Web 2.0? Don’t ask MyWebAlert."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today IT Week has my piece on the lack of any business model in Yahoo Pipes<\/a>, a thought underlined by an unusual press release which popped into my inbox. It is from John Earley of MyWebAlert<\/a>, a company set up to monitor web site availability. Press releases are not usually so dejected:<\/p>\n

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Following a series of reports (copies available) that proved website availability is miserable in both the public and private sectors, we had thought folks would pay a paltry sum for monitoring and management services. This has proved not to be the case. Having sunk the investment in the software and architecture, we have abandoned hope of a business plan and are now making the service available free-of-charge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Intrigued, I took a look at the site. The About page confirms this gravity-defying business endeavour, but looks forward to a bright tomorrow “somehow”:<\/p>\n

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There is no fancy business model, the Company can exist without revenues. It is managed in the belief that somehow, the momentum that it creates, will bring about a means for expanding the range of services that it offers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It appears that the strategy is working, at least in terms of expanding the business. That’s presuming that site overload is the reason for what happened when I tried to sign up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One presumes the outage will be short-lived, bearing in mind the company’s raison d’etre.<\/p>\n

Incidentally Web site monitoring is also available from Netcraft<\/a> and no doubt others. For a fee.<\/p>\n

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Technorati tags: mywebalert<\/a>, yahoo pipes<\/a>, performance monitoring<\/a>, web 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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