We want to be financially responsible and come up with some way to keep this site running. As you've likely noticed, relevent contextual ads from Google make an appearance on each of our pages.
Also, taking a page from the excellent StackOverflow's book, we also rewrite links to certain sites and append our affiliate ID. It's our hope that the combination of these two solutions will be the least intrusive way to cover the costs of providing this site as a resource for our users.
Their revenue model is: (A) one AdSense ad per page, and (B) rewriting URLs to append their own affiliate link (if an affiliate code does not currently exist).
For the record, Delicious alternative Pinboard also has a revenue model, whereby they charge each new user a certain amount, and then also have a premium offering whereby bookmarked links are archived.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadWe want to be financially responsible and come up with some way to keep this site running. As you've likely noticed, relevent contextual ads from Google make an appearance on each of our pages.
Also, taking a page from the excellent StackOverflow's book, we also rewrite links to certain sites and append our affiliate ID. It's our hope that the combination of these two solutions will be the least intrusive way to cover the costs of providing this site as a resource for our users.
http://www.hoarde.rs/about/
For the record, Delicious alternative Pinboard also has a revenue model, whereby they charge each new user a certain amount, and then also have a premium offering whereby bookmarked links are archived.
"hoarde.rs is based on Yahoo! Inc's del.icio.us a social bookmarking site that has recently been decommisioned."
This is not true. See -> http://www.delicious.com/
I would strongly encourage all our competitors to adopt this elegant business model.