Wednesday, November 16, 2005
What Free Blog Business Model?
It looks like after making a go of it for almost a year Fortune City is dropping their free Blogging service. I guess ad-supported revenue wasn't cutting it. Here is a snippet from their official notice:
"After a careful evaluation of our product portfolio, we have decided to no longer provide a blog service. We value you as a loyal customer, and want to do everything we can to ensure that you will still be able to continue blogging and keep all your current postings and photos. So we'd like to introduce you to a compatible blog service that you can migrate your account to, BlogHarbor!"
Incidently BlogHarbour charges $8.95 per month which is rather expensive considering there are a plethora of good web hosting companies out there charging less and giving much more. Also incidently both Fortune City and BlogHarbour use Tucows BlogWare to power their blogging platform. Perhaps Tucows is setting themselves up to lose even more partners as they slowly go direct to consumer with their wholesale products.
"After a careful evaluation of our product portfolio, we have decided to no longer provide a blog service. We value you as a loyal customer, and want to do everything we can to ensure that you will still be able to continue blogging and keep all your current postings and photos. So we'd like to introduce you to a compatible blog service that you can migrate your account to, BlogHarbor!"
Incidently BlogHarbour charges $8.95 per month which is rather expensive considering there are a plethora of good web hosting companies out there charging less and giving much more. Also incidently both Fortune City and BlogHarbour use Tucows BlogWare to power their blogging platform. Perhaps Tucows is setting themselves up to lose even more partners as they slowly go direct to consumer with their wholesale products.
# posted by Jim @ 1:52 AM 
