To: 10K a day who wrote (26516 ) 3/17/2001 12:59:36 AM From: margie Respond to Interesting. Did you see thisf---edcompany.com On Friday morning, Kaplan announced that he would start charging users for new features he has added to F---edCompany.com, which up until now has been a completely free online rumor mill chronicling the implosion of the Internet economy. And, judging from user response, the move has been an overwhelming success, he says. a slightly more popular free site that, like F---edCompany.com, is trying to institute new services that will bring in cash from users? Unclear. But it apparently does mean that someone has found a new way to make money from the Internet's decline. Two hours after sending out an email announcing the new features, Kaplan said he'd already received 60 subscription requests. And judging from subscribers' email addresses, a fair number of them are venture capitalists or Wall Streeters. And the subscription business is profitable already, says Kaplan, whose day job is running the New York-based Internet software company PK Interactive. "If I sold one subscription for 75 bucks, I'd take you to dinner. ... That's profit," he says. “So what's Kaplan's advice for anyone else who wants to get in the e-commerce business? If Internet users want something new from your site, make them pay, he says. "You charge for every little thing you can do on a Web site, every button that somebody's going to want to push," he says. "F---edCompany.com now is frozen. ... I'm not going to write one line of code until that code makes me a dollar." Or maybe it will, like others, just be fodder for the site." “>>>
