11 web companies at the edge of the cliff

"We are about to lose some outstanding companies." recently, investors from some technology companies have issued such an alarm. Some of them will not be pity, but many of our favorite Web2.0 companies are on the verge of a cliff.

The problem is that Kozmo's popularity does not necessarily mean success. Do you still remember the instant messaging tool of Kozmo? Anyone who used it liked this tool in the last era of network gunning, at the beginning, the company was busy building user bases, but had been losing money. It was too late to make money. It was a tragedy.

Twitter

Although many people are using this tool and many rely on it, Twitter still does not find a profit model and Twitter users will not leave easily. It should try some advertisements, many may want to see the company make money, otherwise it will be too late.

Meebo

This is a very cool online service, but the revenue of its online chat service is not always that ideal. Meebo is located under the subsidiaries of big companies such as Facebook and Microsoft, however, its high valuation and the decline in the acquisition of the entire industry will bring obstacles to its continued development.

TripIt

A very useful service for managing travel information. But in this era of economic downturn, who will travel more frequently? People all want to stay at home and put money under their ass and use remote meetings instead of traveling. Do they want to travel? Go straight to your own backyard.

Zillow

The real estate website's revenue model is advertising. Real estate or bank advertising. However, in the current economic form, people will not easily launch their own houses and stick to them (the United States is said)

Pandora

People like this product and they use it to find their favorite music. But what is the problem? A high copyright usage fee will greatly increase its operating costs. Whether it can survive depends on negotiations with the recording company, but the company is so arrogant.

Second Life

It represents the future of web interfaces and social networks, but it is too expensive and difficult to use.

Skype

This revolutionary VOIP service purchased by eBay will be in trouble one day. Skype is not the core business of eBay. eBay may split the business, but who will make a price satisfactory to both eBay and himself?

Ask

Why is it not dead? Ask is a good search engine, but it lives in three search giants (Google, Yahoo !, Under the shadow of live), it must be difficult, and its competitive cost will be very high. (In fact, ask is based on the knowledge search route and belongs to the human search field. This is not very in conflict with the current search giants. See: the future of human search-translators)

Dailymotion

This popular video sharing site in Europe has not yet found a way to offset its Broadband spending by advertising revenue.

Netvibes

The small rival of netvibes, pageflakes, was acquired earlier this year. This should happen to netvibes. Potential acquisition companies of netvibes, affected by the shrinking advertising market, may forecast the halt of netvibes.

MySpace

Although he made a lot of money and was supported by Rupert Murdoch, the cold-blooded businessman may easily get rid of the social network company on the left.

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