Re: RootsWeb to be Moved to Ancestry.com

the_verminator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> mels...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Robert Melson) wrote:
> 
> > Please 'scuse the multi-post .. thought it the best way
> > to get this out to "my" groups.
> >
> > Interesting article here:
> >
> >
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/03/rootsweb-to-be...
> >
> > See also: http://blogs.rootsweb.com/newsroom
> >
> > RootsWeb to be Moved to Ancestry.com.
> >
> > As a more-or-less skeptic, I wonder when the other shoe will drop
> > and RW will be either terminated or become a for-a-fee service,
> > despite Sullivan's claims to the contrary..
> >
> > Suspicious Ol' Bob
> 
> I believe what will happen is at some point all RootsWeb will be
> frozen and no new input allowed and then it will be treated as any
> other Ancestry on-line database (i.e. Read Only).
> 
>>From that point on all RootsWeb functions (mailinglists, SSDI,
> USGENWEB, etc.) would be done on Ancestry rather than RootsWeb.
> 
> "the_verminator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <the_verminator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>


you guys make me laugh
I have had time to sleep and think about this

what is going on is a Web 2 site (all the new family trees, photos ,
sound bites on ancestry.com

By making rootsweb.ancestry.com a subdomain the hits will be added
to the ancestry score and enable TGN to chareg a higher price for
advertising

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the genealogy on line market is becoming saturated and new
competitors have opened a price and quality war with ancestry

when ready the freebie newfamilysearch will dominate
they are busy keying in new census indexes right now for example and
scanning all the film in the granite mountain

I think ancestry will find its future profits in advertising and web
shopping rather than subscriptions

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It well may become a freebie like google (mail web pages grousp) or AOL 
  bring your own connection

AOL is very much dominated by advertising too

I joined aol.co.uk as a ISP but often was roaming and logged on from
other systems

I was an early adopter of TalkTalk and changed my ISP and telephony
to them

later aol.co.uk connections was sold to TalkTalk

All UK ISP are basically using the local copper of the national 
telephone network - either rebadged or with their own server and glass 
fibre backbone
(except the cable TV companies but that package is more expensive as a 
whole)

When new familysearch is launched TGN may well be purely financed by
advertising

RootsWeb will continue to be a valuable site and so preserved more
or less as is still running on Apache on Red Hat Linux

Hugh W


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