Opinion: 10 'Net services that will succeed, and 10 that will probably fail
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Vetting 'Net startups is a favorite pastime of Silicon Valley pundits, but at The Industry Standard, we're taking things a step further, calling out the 10 services that we think are bound to succeed, as well as those that are probably destined for obscurity – or oblivion. The following slideshow contains capsule reviews of all 20 products and services, but click through to the full articles to read more complete profiles and analyses, management details, links to external reviews, and links to associated predictions from The Standard's unique prediction market. Full Article ... |
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Hi, it's David G from Zillow.com, first let me just say, OUCH!
As traffic metrics go, comscore's way off - I just pulled up omniture - Zillow had 5,1 million uniques in March '08.
Thanks for the critique. Redfin's actually not a competitor, they're a brokerage who publish Zestimates on their site and have in fact advertised on Zillow.
Local CPM ads actually work really well for real estate pro's who want their phones to ring (something you can't do with CPC) but many of the ads on Zillow are CPC with some CPA. Zillow's a high-tech media business. The same folks who develop Zestimate algorithms are building ad targeting systems that can target cable ads for example to movers and lawnmower ads to people with large lawns.
As to Zillow's prospects - expect Zillow to change online mortgage shopping (launching very soon) and expect to see for sale listings on the site continue to grow now that brokerages are uploading listings in bulk to the site.
Zamazing!
This looks really interesting -- too bad it's spread out over 21 pages. Way to inflate page views :)
I could not agree more on Twitter and Spock being on the way out. Both go on the premise that the rest of the world actually cares what you think and spends time talking about you - it''s Vanity 2.0 rather than Web 2.0. Beyond the initial curiousity of how else you can waste your time with new web apps there is nothing sticky about them at all.
It's a great pity someone doesn't get to what are obviously two teams of talented developers with a decent business plan.
Ian Hendry
http://www.wecando.biz
Well, I have to say that all 20 net services listed look pretty retarded. They all look like copies of old ideas, or half-assed ideas from MBA dropouts.
Good site!
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I revise my position on Twitter. I know quite a few companies using it with some success as a great way of engaging in easy two way dialogue with customers and prospects. They automate a lot of the content (mainly through RSS feeds via Friendfeed) so they appear busy without there being any overhead on staff to issue Tweets. They can just focus on how their market is responding, either directly through monitoring Tweets of followers, or using social media monitoring tools.
It's getting so much interest I am running a seminar on it next month.
Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz
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