http://www.saunderslog.com/2006/07/19/free-gizmo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-gizmo An outcome-driven leader, proven technology product developer, and marketer with over 20 years of hands-on experience including start-up, small and large business environments, and the board room. This is my blog. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.saunderslog.com/2006/07/19/free-gizmo/#comment-3209 Alec Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:06:31 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/19/free-gizmo/#comment-3209 Cool! Cool!

]]> http://www.saunderslog.com/2006/07/19/free-gizmo/#comment-3208 luca Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:18:29 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/19/free-gizmo/#comment-3208 Alec, six years ago Abbeynet offered calls to italy landline for free. The service, www.chocophone.com, became popular very quickly in Italy. Now, we have 300K users, but the service is no longer mantained, even if still up and running. The model ? Advertising. Not succesfull 6 years ago, but now the scenario has changed. Advertising is the "food" for all the most important and popular web applications and services, because it responds to a precise need: helping companies to get customers. if you want to make money, you have to help companies to do that. IMHO, of course ;-) Alec, six years ago Abbeynet offered calls to italy landline for free. The service, http://www.chocophone.com, became popular very quickly in Italy. Now, we have 300K users, but the service is no longer mantained, even if still up and running. The model ? Advertising. Not succesfull 6 years ago, but now the scenario has changed. Advertising is the “food” for all the most important and popular web applications and services, because it responds to a precise need: helping companies to get customers. if you want to make money, you have to help companies to do that. IMHO, of course

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