Comment I hope not (Score 1) 90
That is exactly the point. The next trend in portals (and something the internet is very well suited for) is interest-specific portals.
You can't very well publish a Linux-only daily newspaper, there aren't enough readers to pay subscription fees nor enough advertisers to pay ad fees to make it anything other than a sinkhole for money.
Since the internet puts the onus of delivery on the customer, not the supplier, publishing information can be done dirt cheap in comparison to meatspace information distribution.
This paves the way for any Joe with a hobby to start a portal of sorts (Rob had a leg up, as an interest in coding makes it easier to manage a web site like /.).
People are wowed by the figure of 75,000 that Rob tossed out there the other day, and I will agree, it's quite impressive... but do you realize that Yahoo! gets 160 million page views per day?. While it is somewhat of a chicken and egg issue, with numbers like that you can get advertisers that aren't VA Research and Sendmail, Inc., but more like Platinum Visa. Advertising is always done in terms of eyeballs, and Yahoo! boasts more eyeballs than any old media daily.
You can't very well publish a Linux-only daily newspaper, there aren't enough readers to pay subscription fees nor enough advertisers to pay ad fees to make it anything other than a sinkhole for money.
Since the internet puts the onus of delivery on the customer, not the supplier, publishing information can be done dirt cheap in comparison to meatspace information distribution.
This paves the way for any Joe with a hobby to start a portal of sorts (Rob had a leg up, as an interest in coding makes it easier to manage a web site like
People are wowed by the figure of 75,000 that Rob tossed out there the other day, and I will agree, it's quite impressive... but do you realize that Yahoo! gets 160 million page views per day?. While it is somewhat of a chicken and egg issue, with numbers like that you can get advertisers that aren't VA Research and Sendmail, Inc., but more like Platinum Visa. Advertising is always done in terms of eyeballs, and Yahoo! boasts more eyeballs than any old media daily.
