Love Fest for the Little Guy
Step forward and receive your Congressional medals, small web-based enterprises. A hearing in the House of Representatives today, featuring Google and Amazon, was a love fest for the little guy. Both companies claimed they wouldn’t be where they are today — propping up the online economy — without you.
“There are millions of small businesses, millions of Web site publishers, and billions of people interacting on the ‘long tail’ around products and services catering to individual tastes and personalities,” said David Fischer, Google’s VP of online sales. “And the economic potential in this long tail is driving some of the most successful and innovative businesses online today.”
Amazon’s spokesman pointed out that an increasing percentage of its $11 billion revenue comes from marketplace fees — skimmed off the top of those billions of used item resellers. Future Boy, whose ten-year-old Amazon addiction is now centered largely around buying used books, and whose fiance just yesterday became an Amazon reseller, couldn’t agree more.
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"Future Boy" is the nom de plume of Chris Taylor, award-winning journalist and futurist. Currently the West Coast Editor of Fortune Small Business, he previously served as San Francisco bureau chief of Time magazine, where he wrote the magazine's first stories on tech trends such as Google and the iPod. In 2005 he became "Future Editor" of Business 2.0, where he edited the "What's Next" section, and where the Future Boy column and blog were born. Chris was born in Liverpool, England and was educated at Oxford and Columbia Universities.
If Ebay would just get back to the roots that made them what they are today,they might have been included in this short list. Maybe Google will develop an auction site and put Ebay out of it’s misery.Here is to hoping.
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