Articles in category Business models

subjoost - subtitles for joost
subjoost provides subtitles for Joost and is our contribution to joost's ecosystem - basically it's just a simple feature-platform that enables anybody to see or add new subtitles for joost's shows.
who on which plate
see what the big players had acquired in the past - Google seems to be the one with the largest appetite



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two quick industry facts of the day....
....of the CMS market that is:

- fragmented market with over 1300 CMS companies
- for every one product dollar there's five dollars for services

Obviously one of the most important industry play is, or should be towards, the ecosystem developed around your product - both in terms of product development (see the gazilion plugins or extensions developed for Wordpress) and in terms of biz development (i.e. partnerships with players up the value chain such as publishers, ad agencies etc)

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B5's revenue breakdown
- AdSense: 5% (we hate AdSense, but when we can’t serve anything else, especially to international visitors, we do use it)
- Direct: 30%
- Premium boutique networks: 30%
- Regular ad networks: 10%
- Text links: 15%
- Syndication and other deals: 10%

all this together with some other insights about Jeremy's blog network in this interview with J himself.
Create your own MVNO
With Sonopia - that's a Verizon wireless service that permits creating your own wirless career, tailored to your targeted community needs. The fees range between 3 and 8%.
Kiva
Another interesting model - an intermmediator betweek very small biz idea and investors, micro-payments to be more specific. The countries the fund receivers are from are located in the developing world.
Blyk
Interesting model -- free voice (over mobile) & advertising supported. The target is the 16-24 segment, as apparently they are more willing to take the free for ads trade. The company & the story.
videmeter
online video aggregator of the the top-watched videos from youtube and the like.
Red Nose Day
UK fund raising event organized every other year. Lots of ideas and tips if one wants to get involved at all. The upcoming edition is in March.
web 2.0 list
a thousand or so, structured by categories
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