Comments on: The Internet Works Backwards http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=171 simplify Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:08:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: matt http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=171&cpage=1#comment-231 matt Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:59:05 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=171#comment-231 @tylersticka your experimental app wouldn't cost you anything. On the contrary, you would get a very small slice of the pie. The consumers still would pay a fixed amount for bandwidth, the ISPs would just distribute a portion of the money collected from consumers to those sites where traffic flowed above a certain amount. Maybe a firm example would help. Let's say my ISP has 100 consumers at a dollar a day, and 3 of my fellow consumers spend 5% of their time for 10 days on your site. 3 x 10 * 0.05 means you get $1.50. Totally bogus numbers, to be sure. It would be more like fractions of a cent at that level. But the point is that you would make money. This could trickle down and follow the network. So your hosting provider might get a cut, and the carrier would to. It's kind of like network marketing except there is an real network and actual value being transmitted. @tylersticka your experimental app wouldn’t cost you anything. On the contrary, you would get a very small slice of the pie. The consumers still would pay a fixed amount for bandwidth, the ISPs would just distribute a portion of the money collected from consumers to those sites where traffic flowed above a certain amount.

Maybe a firm example would help. Let’s say my ISP has 100 consumers at a dollar a day, and 3 of my fellow consumers spend 5% of their time for 10 days on your site. 3 x 10 * 0.05 means you get $1.50. Totally bogus numbers, to be sure. It would be more like fractions of a cent at that level. But the point is that you would make money. This could trickle down and follow the network. So your hosting provider might get a cut, and the carrier would to. It’s kind of like network marketing except there is an real network and actual value being transmitted.

]]> By: Tyler Sticka http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=171&cpage=1#comment-230 Tyler Sticka Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:28:51 +0000 http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=171#comment-230 It's an intriguing idea! My worry is that a system like this would keep me from doing fun little experiments like Portwiture that only get 80 hits a day, but are a fun exercise and learning experience. YouTube has the resources (namely, Google) to pay the exorbitant fees; I don't. It’s an intriguing idea! My worry is that a system like this would keep me from doing fun little experiments like Portwiture that only get 80 hits a day, but are a fun exercise and learning experience. YouTube has the resources (namely, Google) to pay the exorbitant fees; I don’t.

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