The Web Economy/05

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Content Is King

This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

There are some sites that attracts alot of traffic due to its content^[1]. They may not be the first movers, but they are visited for their content and soon become tops such as wikipedia.
Possessing knowledge makes one king. It is the Knowledge economy. Those who does not know cannot really possess content.
There are those that generate content through networking or a viral community^[2].
Huge content pools may not appeal to most people. But they possesss a long tail^[3] such as in the case of Amazon.com.
Many are copycats of others' contents. They do not produce or solicit responses and so end up at the bottom of the well.

Name a site that uses content to attract you.
How does the site makes you return again?
Compare and differentiate between such a site with another site that you often visit.
More and more sites know about the content game. Are there anything new they must do to be better at it?

Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.

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(Done in wikiversity as course material by the students under the guidance of the tutor)

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