The Recession Will Hit the Web
Here's hoping that this will give a good incentive to research and consider alternate revenue models more thoroughly.
From both my developer and user perspectives, ads are boring. I hope I never have to inflict them on my users (said the deluded idealist).
Though the revised number is still 23% higher than 2007’s total, it shows the economic downturn will impact the Web.
A projected 23% annual growth doesn't sound like something to worry about.
Seems like this will affect startups at very late stages in their growth. How many of us have even put ads in before the product was effectively done? Not exactly cutting off innovation at the source.
This article inspired me to write a blog post. It's mostly about my own site, but toward the end I mention that an economic downturn's likely effect on Snipshot and Disqus would be that they could find cheap rent easier. If this is wrong somebody let me know.