"Web 2.0 is Fucked"

[tony404]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

HP, at the end of the day, if you build a website that gives away something (say news) to sell something else (whatever is being advertised, offered, whatever) then you are still ad supported.

Just getting rid of the ad spaces doesn't change the model, except perhaps that you go from product promotion to product placement.

it isn't any different from Perez Hilton (rumored to be) taking payoffs from certain minor / unimportant celebs to keep their names in the news. The content becomes the ad, but in the end it is still ad supported and subject to failure when the ads dry up.

The only non-ad supported websites out there are places like Amazon, because people actually go there to buy something.

Actually that's going to be changing soon. I read an article that the news sites are going to be starting a pay subscription model. Ads doing work and I think there are so many ads on line people become blind to them. I dont think they are getting the result the ad buyers want especially when you add ad blocker plugins.