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user-inactivated  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The social aggregator is a terrible business model.

I would pay hubski a monthly fee to negotiate all the online news paywalls for us as an audience.

Hubski could try to work with NY Times/WAPO/NOLA/Denver Post/LA Times/Cleveland/Austin/DallasMornNews/Chicago newspapers to offer a "well demographied"* audience... and let us view their content through hubski.

They charge you some. You charge us some plus a fee. We get to have access to their websites to talk about them here. Which is free marketing for the papers.

HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES?





mk  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's an interesting idea, but they won't be interested in a site this size. thenewgreen and I had some casual chats with media companies a couple of years ago. It was pretty clear that big numbers are what they are interested in.

user-inactivated  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The are dozens of us. Dozens!

user-inactivated  ·  3238 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Big numbers aside I wouldn't necessarily need there to be a discount on the newspaper/publication subscriptions that hubski would negotiate for me.

I need a tool to deal with the login/pwd, email connect, spam, user preferences, and privacy and change pwd after six months etc etc bologna that comes with trying to pay and consume current event these days.

An "a la carte" menu that let me choose which newspaper/publication I would be willing to pay full price for ... and I would pay hubski a small fee to negotiate the identity of the reader/user on that newspaper's website. Any additions or subtractions would require a fee paid to a patreon-like account somewhere to hubski (edit: clarification).

I could then pay hubski again if I wanted to assume the full roll identity of the user hubski created for me.

Just a thought.

user-inactivated  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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