Friendfeed is a virtual community. It is an example of an emerging concept of “network of networks”. Friendfeed enables to see web pages, videos, photos, and music your friends are sharing from around the web. It automatically picks up the stuff you share on over 40 web sites, like YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc.
Business Model
Strategic Partners
Friendfeed extracts content from different Social Web2.0 Services, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Delicious, where the user has accounts.
Key Activities
Aggregation of feeds in one place, within one common User Interface.
Key Resources
Open APIs of supported Web2.0 Services. Through these APIs, Friendfeed access the information and content related to the user, which is stored in these Web2.0 Services.
Value Proposition
To users: aggregated feeds from different Social Web2.0 Services.
To supported Web2.0 Services: promotion and benchmarking of their resources.
Customer Relationship
Friendfeed was launched recently, and it needs to prove its safety in order to gain users’ confidence.
Distribution Channels
- Blogs
- Portals
- Advertisements
- Search Engines
Users of Social Web2.0 Services.
Cost
Free of charge
Revenues
As the project is very recent, it hasn’t deployed any revenue model so far.
2. Identify whether they are involved in marketspaces and if so as what kind of component. Define the type of e-marketplaces that best fits the specific e-business case. Justify all your answers.
Friendfeed is not involved in any marketplaces.
3. What in your opinion are (if existent) or would be (if not existent) the potential benefits and limitations of blog services to those e-business sites?
Friendfeed.com has a blog, which serves as means of building customer relationship, making announcements, promoting the project (for example, via search engines, which can index the blog), gathering feedback from users and answering users’ questions.
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