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Re:Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money? by davidw on Monday March 09, 2009 @08:44AM (#508305)
That's a cool idea. However, it's still basically an advertising business unless you're charging for access to that site. And all of a sudden you have introduced a big incentive for people to spam/game your service.

I guess what I'm getting at is... some data is valuable, but doesn't, at least to ignorant me, seem to have a market for it.

(Edit: BTW, I'd be happy to be proven wrong... for instance, I have this site where the data might be worth something, and the ads aren't worth much:

http://shoplist.dedasys.com/ )

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Re:Ask HN: How are url shorteners making money? by kortina on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @09:54AM (#509902)
There's an important distinction to make between "advertising business" and "data business." Data can be useful for advertising, but can also be useful for tons of other stuff--news, filtering, etc.
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