{"id":2852,"date":"2009-10-11T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2009-10-11T20:09:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T04:09:18","slug":"web-0-0-companies-with-seven-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/10\/11\/web-0-0-companies-with-seven-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 0.0: Companies with Seven Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone:<\/p>\n<p>After having read this article, I could not help but wonder why entrepreneurs would want to put a lot of money into Web 2.0 companies unless these entrepreneurs simply have an insatiable appetite to create a monopoly within the Web 2.0 world, thus preventing others from building web-based empires.\u00a0 Perhaps it is a matter of conquering cyber space, or making a name for oneself, or steering viewers to their companies over others, or getting people hooked (so companies can charge in the [near] future).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason(s), it is a high stakes game, for there is little or no revenue, despite on-line ads (which I, for example, never pay attention to anyways even though they are geared towards me based on my cyber hits).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I am thankful that there are some reputable Web-based companies that require payment for their services and\/or products, for I find them valuable in my teaching profession.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Barrie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone: After having read this article, I could not help but wonder why entrepreneurs would want to put a lot of money into Web 2.0 companies unless these entrepreneurs simply have an insatiable appetite to create a monopoly within the Web 2.0 world, thus preventing others from building web-based empires.\u00a0 Perhaps it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod04-social-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}