Comments on: Be Wary of Freebies on the Web http://webapplicationsonline.com/innovations/be-wary-of-freebies-on-the-web/ Where you get the Hottest and Latest News about the Latest Online Web Applicaitons Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Namkyu Yang http://webapplicationsonline.com/innovations/be-wary-of-freebies-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Namkyu Yang Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:17:51 +0000 http://webapplicationsonline.com/innovations/be-wary-of-freebies-on-the-web/#comment-2 Actually, that is very true. Nothing in the world comes "free" as you said. Everything has a catch. It's actually amazing to see the amount of things that are available of the web that are considered to be totally free. The real ironic thing is that while free software may have these things, a lot of startup web application services have no catch. Which makes you wonder.. what the catch actually is.. but many companies that are developing new Web 2.0 apps are targeting mainstream users at no cost (although some type of revenue model probably exists..) There's a lot of new stuff out that's available on the web. Try out Springnote (http://www.springnote.com). Springnote is basically a free WYSIWYG online notebook. It has a nice UI and very flexible usages. Actually, that is very true. Nothing in the world comes “free” as you said. Everything has a catch. It’s actually amazing to see the amount of things that are available of the web that are considered to be totally free. The real ironic thing is that while free software may have these things, a lot of startup web application services have no catch. Which makes you wonder.. what the catch actually is.. but many companies that are developing new Web 2.0 apps are targeting mainstream users at no cost (although some type of revenue model probably exists..)

There’s a lot of new stuff out that’s available on the web. Try out Springnote (http://www.springnote.com). Springnote is basically a free WYSIWYG online notebook. It has a nice UI and very flexible usages.

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