How much of the social bookmarking space uses paid contributors?
by project | Bookmark on del.icio.usThat’s a question I’ve been wondering. Obviously, at least some people are directly or indirectly paid for their time. Some work for the company themselves.
But nowhere is the information disclosed. I wonder if it matters to people. At some level I think it might, but it’s probably not the type of thing people lose sleep over. But the same way product placements have permeated movies, we can expect commercialism to pervade every aspect of the social “space” too.
Netscape has adopted a paid plan wholeheartedly, and they don’t really appear to be benefitting from it in any big way. But this might just be the future going forward. Why? Because it’s tough to find people with a talent for being editors.
August 21st, 2006 at 4:20 am
An interesting question, i think there must be a certain element that is doing exactly that - Netscape is just being up front and saying so while the others don’t