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Re:StackOverflow for HTML and CSS by mrshoe on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @07:33PM (#756775)
The cynic in me sees two differences:

1) Much smaller user base

2) The Litmus ad on the right side of every page

EDIT: The rest of me sees healthy competition and an interesting take on freemium marketing for their money-making app. :)

Re:StackOverflow for HTML and CSS by webwright on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @08:07PM (#756866)
"1) Much smaller user base"

Also a much more focused user base. From an advertising point of view, do you think it's easier to sell 10,000 uniques on a general web technology site or 5,000 uniques on a site that has a very specific audience like web designers?

Re:StackOverflow for HTML and CSS by brown9-2 on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @06:32AM (#757700)
I would argue that the SO userbase is already highly focused - on developers. Its not "general technology site", just "general developers" site. Its not as if that's an especially large and poorly defined group.

With a much smaller subset of potential users I think you'll also find a much more "focused" group of advertisers, i.e. a smaller group of interested advertisers.

Re:StackOverflow for HTML and CSS by dangoldin on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @12:17AM (#757266)
That's a pretty astute point.

I can see them sharing the same database for both sites but displaying the CSS/HTML questions both on doctype and SO, but doctype restricted to CSS/HTML only. This will allow them to get content through multiple channels but allow them to sell more targeted ads on doctype.

Re:StackOverflow for HTML and CSS by andreyf on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @07:39PM (#756791)
Much smaller user base

Since SO content is licensed under creative commons, there's no reason they can't feed in all questions into SO... I suppose it might be tricky to merge votes of the (much larger) SO audience with votes of their audience, and has interesting implications to SO's business, but it's certainly doable.

Re:StackOverflow for HTML and CSS by forgotmypasswd on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @12:47AM (#757301)
My question got answered in 4 minutes. I cant complain