Although Karpinski is very careful to say that correlation does not imply causation, it is obvious that you are doing a lot of time studying anything less likely to get least qualifications, in this case Facebook is one of the factors distracting the university and not “factor “that we should blame the low notes. But the study also reveals that students who spend more time on extracurricular activities, the Facebook is usually very popular. Another thing that the study also clearly shows is that the more time gets better grades, which is merely a statistical confirmation of what we all suspected.

Anyway, if you have Facebook and they leave thinking you are doing because they get low grades, because it uses the easy way out, it may be that these low grades due to a large number of external and internal factors. The first thing you need is to implement a system of check & balance in your life, get clear and realistic goals, evaluate whether you have met every day and correcting course when you see these off the road. Because you do not need to be a genius to get good grades, it only takes discipline, perseverance and courage.

In the current economic environment, where venture capitalists have no money to invest, and large enterprises are struggling to mantenerce alive and do not consider any new purchase, the model obviously does not work. Furthermore, the classic model of an ad, has proven that does not generate enough income, then basically it can match the right ad to the visitor to a specific website is still an outstanding issue of contextual advertising, as this is focused on the contents of the site where the ad appears, but not in the profile of the user who accesses the site. This is why Facebook has such a conversion rate much lower than other websites.

The other alternative is freemium system, which is offering a free basic service and to generate enough interest that a group of customers who are willing to pay for it. One case used to illustrate the model freemium was to Tapulous, a video game that has produced the game Tap Tap Revenge for iPhone, which has a free version and paid extra to offer that, is not free. However this model does not apply to any application, otherwise it is plausible that Google is having trouble convincing your users to change the free version of the premium.

As Anderson clearly states in his article, in an economy that is shrinking, the best price is always $ 0, plus cable and satellite companies have canceled many basic services, because users now watch video over the web for free through portals such as Hulu. Similarly many have canceled their home phone line to use the VoIP service Skype. Powerful laptops are no longer sold as before, and the economic netbooks have been sold in over this last holiday season. That is what free or cheap queen as expected in this economy is in recession, but from the standpoint of the companies offering the service is important to achieve a cash flow that can pay the bills and get out seeking new investors and is not an option.

We appear to door to see a new business model on the web, we still do not know what, but definitely focused on getting a cash flow that allows to operate the service and Twitter is probably the one at the pattern of how might solve the financing model of the Startup, Twitter if you do not have to close their doors. What is clear is that current business models were anachronistic in the present circumstances.

Well according to Paul Boutin, in an article in Wired, as blogs are already dead and the Murderers have been Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. In his article, we recommend not to start a new blog and if we have a recommended stop. He claims that due to the influx of professionals to the blogosphere, there is no space for amateur writers, who want to communicate their ideas and use a blog as a means of expression. To support its argument that the Top 10 of Technorati, a blog is not a single author, on the contrary these are institutional blogs, and in many cases could be considered that are online journals that can produce up to 30 days post quality, enough for the average blogger, Suffocate get traffic. Also mention the fact that Jason Calacanis, one of the first bloggers blog has officially closed with these words: “blog has become something so big, so impersonal, and lost the intimacy that drew me to him,” Calacanis actually only keeps your Twitter account and a newsletter distributed by subscription.

Does this mean that we should leave Blogger, then no. As you point out Mathew Ingram and Seamus McCauley on their blogs, is the classic position to bring something new to overcome the former, and it was thought that radio could end up with books, TV with radio, or more recently the Internet with the TV , but the fact is that there are simply more supply competing for public attention. Furthermore, as Ingram points out, the blogosphere is not for everyone, it never was more, is for those who wish to write, those who do not want to do now is simply because Twitter or Facebook, and perhaps for millions of human beings that is sufficient, but there will always be a group who want to continue writing and speaking out through their blogs, because otherwise would not do in conventional media. McCauley said that even Boutin’s article is only intended to drive traffic to scandal, I do not think so, simply states a fact that this is happening and the lack of progressive bloggers to maintain their active blogs, statistics show it is only a small percentage of blogs are updated weekly, is not an easy task by the way, keep this blog consume many hours of my free time and more free time that is reduced because it needs more work. It is precisely because of the ease to update Twitter and Facebook that have had this sudden boom.

A blog is definitely half Elitisto, is not for everyone (or should I say is not for fools) out of jokes is not easy to blog or read, or write, and not for the masses of literature, all trying to read one book per month is simply a nonsense, but there will always be writers and readers always eager to discuss either oppose or support by adding a new point of view, to a post. This is something that lacks for example conventional media, the interactivity of blogs is still and by far the most important contributions to our culture.

The meeting was addressed by at least four speakers, including a brief introduction by Mike Moritiz. Another speaker was Doug Leone. Still no details on who the other two speakers. A person who deals with public market investments Sequoia said that he had talked to the startups. The message delivered to attendees is that things could be much worse than people think, and a recession will be longer than many analysts had predicted. To give a historical perspective, Sequoia made a similar meeting before the last of the dotcom bubble, which seriously affects the sector.

They want the companies to reduce their costs (euphemism used to fire staff) and focus on determining how to survive and emerge at the other end of the decline of the market, which could last years. The speakers were through each functional area of the company and told the company representatives who participated in the meeting, how to reduce their costs. By holding this special meeting, Sequoia is telling companies that their strategies for survival as they should prioritize their spending and find ways to survive the current problems facing the market.

As mentioned by Wilson, the current model to give everything for free on Internet, what he calls “freemium” is a contraction of the word free (free) and premium (high quality), is currently under pressure as a result of the current financial crisis because money is scarce, and nobody is willing to risk the same way as before, this can lead to a redefinition of services currently exist. And in the long run will mean less dynamism and innovation on the Web in the coming months or even years.

On the other hand Wilson mentions that a business model with a payment service from the beginning, it could mean for small businesses that are behind the new business a heavy burden on their payrolls, to be forced to hire a sales team, not is cheap. From that perspective, Wilson said that a free model at the start to win users and quickly get a feedback from them to improve the service and then offer a service as a paid upgrade to a premium service, remains the best option for small businesses.

Besides the companies “me too”, trying to copy the success of another, simply evaporated veran its funding sources, ie in the coming months we will disappear as such some of the services they offer streaming video (YouTube clones) . The reason for the closure of small imitators is simple, your business model is based on betting that the long-term video-streaming market will grow enough so that their participation will report lower enough traffic to be profitable, since it does not possess to offer any real innovation, and not being able to increase its market share quickly and steadily, simply will be forced to close as a result of the go out of venture capital that are their main source of funding.

It will be interesting to see how well you compare Zoho to Google Docs, as they both offer the same services, the difference is simply the size and ability to be in the market enough, Google has in its favor a diversified source of income and liquid, however Zoho relies on selling your product and venture capital that is raised, which is now scarce.

I wonder what would happen if Blog platforms like Blogger, WordPress.com and LiveJournal, decided to begin charging an annual membership, even $ 5. On the one hand junk blogs that are only links and copy / paste simply disappear at a stroke, the current method of using bots to create thousands of redundant information with blogs and put links and ads there would become economically unfeasible for most hacker. Or if, for example Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo Mail, decided to charge an annual subscription, the number of accounts also reduce ghosts, as well those who really need a paid email tasty.

All companies that currently offer a free service in exchange for advertising revenue that would offset the loss of advertising because of the recession that soon will face, and thus the quality of service we receive is not affected. But the million dollar question would be how to pay for any of a very small amount of the average Internet user who believes that everything is free and should be free on the net.