According to TechCrunch, Twitter is being valued at $1 billion. Meanwhile, one valuation for BusinessWeek came in at $1.00.
Could there really be such a huge gap between the two properties? BusinessWeek reporter Stephen Baker mused about this in his blog posting, "Could Twitter be worth one billion BusinessWeeks?"
Since Twitter has no revenue model in place, it's easy to consider that we're back in the dot-com bubble days. AOL was once considered to be much more valuable than Time Magazine. Does anybody remember AOL?
I like Twitter, and it's certainly generating load of coverage -- Jay Leno mentioned it at least three times during last night's show. But I have to wonder how much can Twitter be worth when the site generates no revenue.
Do you think Twitter is worth $1B? Do you think BusinessWeek is worth $1.00? Let me know.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
25 Things That May Disappear -- Can You Guess Them All?
WalletPop, part of AOL, just published a list of "Top 25 Things Vanishing From America."
Some of the items are disappearing because of the Internet -- like the yellow pages, classified ads, hand-written letters, personal checks, and dial-up access (my mother is a holdout) -- or advancing on telco technology -- like landlines and answering machines.
Those, plus VCRs, analog TV and incandescent light bulbs, all make sense. But the list isn't comprehensive; there are more things that will disappear, such as the cassette tape (see Funeral for a Friend: The End of the Line for Cassette Tapes).
"News Magazines and TV News" came in at No. 3, noting: "While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades, their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that." Read the full posting here.
The Future of News is an important (but not the sole) topic for this blog, so check TheFutureofNews by Steve Boriss, who eaches the class “The Future of News” at Washington University in St. Louis.
Some of the items are disappearing because of the Internet -- like the yellow pages, classified ads, hand-written letters, personal checks, and dial-up access (my mother is a holdout) -- or advancing on telco technology -- like landlines and answering machines.
Those, plus VCRs, analog TV and incandescent light bulbs, all make sense. But the list isn't comprehensive; there are more things that will disappear, such as the cassette tape (see Funeral for a Friend: The End of the Line for Cassette Tapes).
"News Magazines and TV News" came in at No. 3, noting: "While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades, their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that." Read the full posting here.
The Future of News is an important (but not the sole) topic for this blog, so check TheFutureofNews by Steve Boriss, who eaches the class “The Future of News” at Washington University in St. Louis.
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