Ning boots free users; a la carte icons arrive at LJ
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmian1. Ning has recently announced an intention to go premium-only, and get rid of free users. It seems that they will be allowing free networks some weeks before booting them. According to the letter, the premium networks account for 75% of Ning's US traffic.
Are freemium services cutting back on 'free' and emphasizing the "mium"? Ah well.. generally on the web, there are no guarantees that any business is going to be there tomorrow, unless they're publicly traded and you can see their numbers, and even then, all kinds of disruptive things could potentially happen. (Disruptive technology, competitors come up with something that takes over, etc)
2. In other news, a la carte icons have finally arrived at LJ. Accompanying them are stats for Paid and Plus (and Permanent) communities, as well as Google Analytics for paying journals (but not communities). So far there seem to be some problems with/confusion about a la carte icon ordering for people who already have additional userpics. (So far Google Analytics has received little attention, as has stats for communities, in the shadow of the big announcement)
In general, users seem pleased, except perhaps for some Permanent account users, as the maximum number of icons is now no longer the same as the number of Permanent icons. (However, with this, it appears that now Permanent account holders can now have in excess of 400 icons, should they buy all of the packages)
I wonder what new feature people are going to constantly be lobbying for now, then?
Are freemium services cutting back on 'free' and emphasizing the "mium"? Ah well.. generally on the web, there are no guarantees that any business is going to be there tomorrow, unless they're publicly traded and you can see their numbers, and even then, all kinds of disruptive things could potentially happen. (Disruptive technology, competitors come up with something that takes over, etc)
2. In other news, a la carte icons have finally arrived at LJ. Accompanying them are stats for Paid and Plus (and Permanent) communities, as well as Google Analytics for paying journals (but not communities). So far there seem to be some problems with/confusion about a la carte icon ordering for people who already have additional userpics. (So far Google Analytics has received little attention, as has stats for communities, in the shadow of the big announcement)
In general, users seem pleased, except perhaps for some Permanent account users, as the maximum number of icons is now no longer the same as the number of Permanent icons. (However, with this, it appears that now Permanent account holders can now have in excess of 400 icons, should they buy all of the packages)
I wonder what new feature people are going to constantly be lobbying for now, then?
