Great unanswered questions of our time
11 March, 2005A shop in a premium location costs a fortune to rent. A webshop in a premium location costs… well pretty much anything. Creating a premium location (that is, one with lots of traffic) online is a problem so new and so different that almost no one seems to have much of a grasp on it.
Sure, there are bloggers and SEOs who are starting to feel the way.
It’s slippery. Big media intuition is often plain wrong. Rupert Murdoch just convened his 50 execs to reexamine the challenge of the internet. I bet they end up flushing a whole lot more cash down the toilet.
Meanwhile, the boys from CollegeHumor.com have moved into a $10,000/month Tribeca loft, on the back of their hot bartenders and dorm stunts website.
