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7 months ago

in Open Source Idea - Two Way Search on Chris Brogan
Wow -- sounds like a very powerful conversation-starter. Like Michael above, I'd want to be able to opt-in and -out a on per-query basis.

There's a significant business model opportunity here. A search engine company could offer to sell "pings" to interested parties. An author might want to buy pings. So might a book publisher. Or a book retailer.

Like Adsense, you could have all kinds of options: Quotas: an author could buy a max of $1 of pings a day. Geolocation: a brick-and-mortar book retailer could buy pings coming from people within a ten mile radius. Pay-for-Placement: a consumer (who places the search to begin with) could specify "Allow up to N parties to contact me". If there are 10 parties interested in that search and the consumer only allows 3 parties to contact them, then only the top bidders get to make the ping.

This feels like a billion-dollar business for a company with the right resources to make it happen. Perhaps one whose name starts with G...

8 months ago

in Rolling with the punches on Oxyfish
Yikes, Tom! Hang in there...

2 years ago

in A Picture’s Worth 100M Users??? on John's Blog
Nice article. I agree with a lot of it. I have a related, if more business-oriented, post on WinSafari on my site.
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