folksonomy

I've been dabbling in AdSense and other internet marketing programs for years now. This article was a response to an article on this site, Are You Not Making Enough Money With Google AdSense. I thought it was a good nutshell-answer, so I decided to make a blog out of it.

"I think there are really two things you can do to truly make money with AdSense:

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YellowPages.com just does not cut it in today’s Web 2.0 world. They have completely missed out on the democratization/folksonomy cultures sweeping the Web. The folksonomy culture ensures that web pages get attention based on what other users think of the page; and not just on how much one is willing to pay to get attention for a page. Thus, folksonomy ensures the playing field is leveled between those with lots of money and those with lots of happy customers but low advertising budgets.

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Youtube.com -- one of the hottest Web 2.0 companies announced earlier this month that Sequoia (a premier Bay Area VC) was funding their expansion by investing $8 million in a Series B investment.

Note, this is in addition to the $3.5 million Series A investment for YouTube.

Again, there are few details on how the money will be used, or the implied valuation. However, I have a few conjectures:

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