{"id":2632,"date":"2013-01-12T07:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2013-01-12T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T12:25:20","slug":"best-kind-of-internet-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/12\/best-kind-of-internet-company","title":{"rendered":"Best kind of Internet company"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Its like a magazine. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ev\">Evan Williams<\/a>) is getting you guys to do all the work. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pud\">Philip Kaplan<\/a> once told me that the best kind of Internet company is one where everyone else does the content, you just sit there and collect the money.&#8221; &#8211; Leo Laporte on <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/\">Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Celery &amp; cucumber juice by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8361380884\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8469\/8361380884_0efba566a5_m.jpg?resize=240%2C240\" alt=\"Celery &amp; cucumber juice\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Makes you think a lot about Twitter. Facebook. Medium. Instagram. You&#8217;re creating the content. Someone else is making money out of it. No one seems to care. It&#8217;s time to diet.<\/p>\n<p>Quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/show\/this-week-in-google\/180\">This Week in Google #180<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Best%20kind%20of%20Internet%20company&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2F12%2Fbest-kind-of-internet-company&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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(Evan Williams) is getting you guys to do all the work. Philip Kaplan once told me that the best kind of Internet company is one where everyone else does the content, you just sit there and collect the money.&#8221; &#8211; Leo Laporte on Medium. Makes you think a lot about Twitter. 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