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October 07, 2005

Winer Sells: What Economics Are At Work?

Posted by Stowe Boyd

I read that Dave Winer was selling Weblogs.com to Verisign, which was not a tremndous surprise, considering the size of the competitors he is confronted with, and the investments necessary to scale with the blogosphere these days.

What did catch my eye was on of the pledges that the Verisign people are making:

[from Welcome to the Infrablog: Weblogs 2.0]
1. Free

Basic pings, the messages processed by weblogs.com, will remain free to submit, and free to retrieve from the service. Over time, we plan to offer value-added services to publishers and consumers that we can charge a fee for, in much the same way companies like Yahoo! provide basic email services for free, and offer premium “upgrades” for a fee (e.g. extra storage, domain hosting, integrated website, etc.) But pings will remain free; our goal is to make weblogs.com the best, most widely used ping server available.

I guess I am a bit slow on these developments, but the notion that pings could be separately from the weblogs.com service as a whole and discussed like an additional element of the service -- kind of like call forwarding for your cell phone -- seemed strange. I mean, aren't pings just an essential? But then I noticed the subtly important word "basic" that precedes ping in th efirst sentence. Basic pings will remain free, so I am intuiting that non-basic pings are going to cost. So if you need a quicker ping cycle, or if your blog receives more than some basic number of pings, you are going to pay. Perhaps you will purchase a basic plan with so many pings in it, and you will pay for extra pings. Especially during peak hours.

A new economics is appearing before our eyes.

[tags: Dave Winer, weblogs.com, verisign]

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1. EJ on December 6, 2005 12:24 AM writes...

Stowe,

I don't know what Verisign was smoking when they made that deal with Dave but their site will officially go down the tubes now that they have added no follow tags to their site. I mean what value does it have?

A year ago you could put up a new site, ping Weblogs.com and Google would be over to index your new sites in hours. Nofollow changes all of that (even though Yahoo and MSN don't abide by it) and makes the site "officially" useless so I quit pinging them.

As soon as the masses figure this out Weblogs traffic will decrease rapidly and fade away into non-existence..

Respectfully,
EJ Lear

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Someone did waste a cool $2.3 Million.

There are pinging servers around every corner these days. Not to mention Google Sitemaps/Blogsearch.

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