Qumana is Web 2.5 ... Because it's about the bloggers
by
Tris Hussey
on November 15, 2005 04:56PM (PST)
There is an ongoing
discussion about whether Flickr (and related sites) should "give back to its users". 
Give them a little bonus, a little slice of the ad revenue. It comes down to controlling your content and being able to leverage
your creativity to
your benefit, not Yahoo's or Google's. Qumana has been driven, almost from the beginning of what is now Qumana the application, by blogging and professional blogging (yours truly). I have no idea how many hundreds (thousands?) of posts I've cranked out through this baby. We've gone through several potential business models for Qumana. As you know, now, that we are going to earn our revenue through our ad network
AdGenta . What is it all about? This quote below sums it up:
Michael Parekh may be right when he suggests that the Web 2.0 companies that find a way to share their revenues with their users will have the best chance of becoming Web 3.0 companies.
Yeah, we're sharing with the bloggers. We don't make money unless
you do so we're pretty darn driven for
you to make money. I think this is why Qumana is already moving to Web 2.5 from 2.0. We're developing the platform and the model for all of us to make money, together.
On this note, there has been a little confusion about this whole money making thing, AdGenta, and Qumana. Let me try to clarify this (and if I don't comment, and I'll try again). Qumana, the application, is free. Period. It always will be. Like Skype we're giving you the tool, no strings, no spyware, no nothing. Okay you'll get all the support you need. Regardless, you
don't have to insert ads with Qumana if you don't want to. Yes, really. As much as we'd really
like you to use AdGenta, we also know that a lot of people don't
want ads on their blog. Heck, I don't put ads in all my posts. Sometimes, it just isn't the right thing to do. So, there it is. Download Qumana. Blog yourself silly with it, with our compliments. Now, if you'd
like to insert a key-word driven ad, please sign up at
AdGenta.com for an account.
Questions? You in the back? No? Okay. My office hours will be ... oh wait, that was a different career. ;-).
Since the launch of Qumana 2.0 on Oct 13 we've been listening to your feedback and have been making improvements in the interface and a few other tweaks since then. So we have a new version of Qumana to try.
