Comments on: Why is TextAmerican imploding? http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/05/03/why-is-textamerican-imploding/ Essays on viral marketing, freemium, and social gaming Sun, 30 Oct 2011 02:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gabe http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/05/03/why-is-textamerican-imploding/comment-page-1/#comment-705 Gabe Fri, 04 May 2007 00:36:45 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/05/03/why-is-textamerican-imploding/#comment-705 <p>"Pretty amazing that while everyone and their mother goes to an free with advertising model to gain big traffic numbers and big valuations, TextAmerica goes the other way."</p> <p>Zoto.com is another example of a web service that has recently moved from freemium to paid only. I'm curious if there are other services that have also made the switch lately. Some interesting posts from the Zoto blog regarding the swtich:<br /> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yqufwk" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/yqufwk</a><br /> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/25muan" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/25muan</a></p> “Pretty amazing that while everyone and their mother goes to an free with advertising model to gain big traffic numbers and big valuations, TextAmerica goes the other way.”

Zoto.com is another example of a web service that has recently moved from freemium to paid only. I’m curious if there are other services that have also made the switch lately. Some interesting posts from the Zoto blog regarding the swtich:
http://tinyurl.com/yqufwk
http://tinyurl.com/25muan

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