Perhaps if they put some of that $3m in the glory days to expanding the focus and community around the site it wouldnt be this way, new users new revenue streams.... Kind of like slashdot (sold for a big mac) and soon infoq (e.g. more conferences puylishing to youtube now)
It will be news to Google and Bing (and their share price) that "advertising on websites" doesn't work. I suspect they were still working a CPM advertising model that died around the start of the century.
It will be news to Google and Bing (and their share price) that "advertising on websites" doesn't work. I suspect they were still working a CPM advertising model that died around the start of the century.