In Making Money in the Mashup Economy, GigaOm writer Anne Zelenka enumerates the ways that ome of the participants at the latest Mashup Camp have been making money. She includes:
- Elastic Computing (on demand services from the cloud)
- Aggregated Data Access
- Mashup Development Tools
- and…. mashup’s themselves.
I’m surprised at the failure of companies to monetize access to websites. I would think that the services provided by an Amazon, or a Google should be monetizable in other ways, other than simply through related sales of advertising or product.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
