The world surely has changed since the heydays of the late 90′s. It’s been a little over 10 years since Yahoo acquired Geocities for nearly $5bn. Yahoo announced today that it would be shutting down it’s Geocities service – it seems that free websites are on their way out? Clearly, I have a lot vested [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Freemium models will weather the downturn
There are two models for any online business, either the user pays or someone else does… We conducted a survey at Web 2.0 expo earlier this month, and here are the findings: * 78 percent of respondents believed the freemium model will weather the economic downturn, compared to 27 percent who put their faith in [...]
Vinny Lingham is an International Award winning Entrepreneur & Search Engine Marketer. He is currently CEO of Free Website maker, Yola.