Q: What makes Experts Exchange different from other Q&A sites on the Internet?
A: Most of our nearly 3 million solutions revolve around specific technology questions, and the majority of those have a sense of urgency to them.
Huh? How does this differ from StackOverflow? Other than, of course, that those answers are hidden behind a paywall.
We switched to a premium model to keep out of the Venture Capital business (been there, done that, got the t-shirt). Companies like StackExchange couldn't do it without the VC cookie jar. Where's the model? Huh, Spolsky? (I’m sorry. Did that slip out?)
I hate saying things like this because it puts me into a position where it looks like I'm saying too much sooth, but it kind of looks like the EE guys are starting to miss the paradigm shift that's occurred and probably will continue to occur in "long-tailed" question and answer sites.
By the way, if you scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of any question page you do see the best answer. Apparently they bank on the fact most people won't scroll that far and get discouraged by the "paywall" on the top. The Google crawler requires the text to be visible I've heard
Ad rev and job postings don't account for much of a rev model unless you're in the Alexa top 20. Although I support SO, I don't think they have a viable long-term business model outside of Spolsky positioning it for acquisition. 30 people in a downtown Manhattan office building will eat through 6.5 million quickly.
Step 1: Steal underpants
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Step 3: Make money
A: Most of our nearly 3 million solutions revolve around specific technology questions, and the majority of those have a sense of urgency to them.
Huh? How does this differ from StackOverflow? Other than, of course, that those answers are hidden behind a paywall.
We switched to a premium model to keep out of the Venture Capital business (been there, done that, got the t-shirt). Companies like StackExchange couldn't do it without the VC cookie jar. Where's the model? Huh, Spolsky? (I’m sorry. Did that slip out?)
Maybe he hasn't noticed the ads running on every SO page? Or perhaps he doesn't know anything about how careers.stackoverflow.com's billing works (https://careers.stackoverflow.com/billing/checkoutnew)?
I hate saying things like this because it puts me into a position where it looks like I'm saying too much sooth, but it kind of looks like the EE guys are starting to miss the paradigm shift that's occurred and probably will continue to occur in "long-tailed" question and answer sites.