Tuesday, December 07, 2004
http://spaces.msn.com/members/aardvark/
msn has its new blog feature, so i set one up as a test. i'm not really thrilled.
boingboing has a story on which naughty words are and aren't available as blog names.
it's another msn v google war for market share. sometimes before msn has been able to use its dominance to provide a slightly less functional product that is more highly promoted and becomes a standard. usually this involves mimicing a leader, rather than breaking new ground. it's not a bad thing. somebody comes up with a cool new free service, microsoft feels threatened, offers cool new service, billions served.
competition from gmail resulted in hotmail getting fixes it needed.
previously the business model was "offer a broken product and charge for a fixed one",
now it's "offer the fixed product free to keep up with the jones."
Perhaps they will start handing out free windows 95 as a way of dealing with competition from linux.
Lower priced dsl/cable would be the next major transition from paid to free/cheap.
Not saying that will happen, but it would be a logical progression of ubiquitous computing too cheap to meter. Maybe fiber optic to wireless urban zones, driven by local ad revenue. Maybe not. In the meantime, my 3 months at $20/mo are about up, so i'll either do nothing and pay $50/mo or switch to another. It's worth every penny of the $2/day, but i'm on a constant quest to cut my overhead to zero or close.
Little details like not heating the downstairs, not having a cellphone, or a secretary, or living in a decent neighborhood.
msn has its new blog feature, so i set one up as a test. i'm not really thrilled.
boingboing has a story on which naughty words are and aren't available as blog names.
it's another msn v google war for market share. sometimes before msn has been able to use its dominance to provide a slightly less functional product that is more highly promoted and becomes a standard. usually this involves mimicing a leader, rather than breaking new ground. it's not a bad thing. somebody comes up with a cool new free service, microsoft feels threatened, offers cool new service, billions served.
competition from gmail resulted in hotmail getting fixes it needed.
previously the business model was "offer a broken product and charge for a fixed one",
now it's "offer the fixed product free to keep up with the jones."
Perhaps they will start handing out free windows 95 as a way of dealing with competition from linux.
Lower priced dsl/cable would be the next major transition from paid to free/cheap.
Not saying that will happen, but it would be a logical progression of ubiquitous computing too cheap to meter. Maybe fiber optic to wireless urban zones, driven by local ad revenue. Maybe not. In the meantime, my 3 months at $20/mo are about up, so i'll either do nothing and pay $50/mo or switch to another. It's worth every penny of the $2/day, but i'm on a constant quest to cut my overhead to zero or close.
Little details like not heating the downstairs, not having a cellphone, or a secretary, or living in a decent neighborhood.
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