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Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse

David Barrett writes "If you sell three billion ads a month and can't break even, what do you do? Drop prices by 40% and switch business models, apparently. Is this an isolated incident, or does it contribute to the growing pile of evidence that ad... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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