Comments on: A Browser Renaissance? http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/26/a-browser-renaissance/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:23:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: The Web Browser Wars : The Blog Herald http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/26/a-browser-renaissance/#comment-64474 The Web Browser Wars : The Blog Herald Tue, 27 May 2008 08:09:40 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3444#comment-64474 [...] Flock took money, $15 million, and it doesn’t surprise me one bit. As Mark Evans notes, there’s a lot of potential money in social networks in the future, but the immediate money [...] [...] Flock took money, $15 million, and it doesn’t surprise me one bit. As Mark Evans notes, there’s a lot of potential money in social networks in the future, but the immediate money [...]

]]> By: Daniel Gibbons http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/05/26/a-browser-renaissance/#comment-64319 Daniel Gibbons Mon, 26 May 2008 15:41:04 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3444#comment-64319 The revenue models that emerge in the new browser wars will be interesting. Firefox's model (in which almost all of their revenue derives from the search deal with Google) is interesting, but while $50 million is a lot for Mozilla corp., it is hardly enough to go around if the market gets crowded. I'm not saying that it won't be possible to create many other streams of revenue around the browser, and I agree with Cheng's point about the strategic value of being a gateway to countless sites and services -- but any thoughts on where else the revenue might come from? The revenue models that emerge in the new browser wars will be interesting. Firefox’s model (in which almost all of their revenue derives from the search deal with Google) is interesting, but while $50 million is a lot for Mozilla corp., it is hardly enough to go around if the market gets crowded.

I’m not saying that it won’t be possible to create many other streams of revenue around the browser, and I agree with Cheng’s point about the strategic value of being a gateway to countless sites and services — but any thoughts on where else the revenue might come from?

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