First posted at: http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/are-you-ready-to-pay-for-your-web.html

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I was reading this post earlier today
http://davemorin.com/blog/hey-dopplr-make-me-pay/#comment[masked]

This quoted Jason Fried, of 37 Signals, who has made a call to the web community ���Please start charging for your applications. Free is not the future.���

And it got me thinking, what web applications am I ready to pay for that i would shell out $20 a year for?

Would I pay for Blogger? possibly but i'm thinking about moving it to Wordpress to be hosted on my own server for better url support anyway.

Would I pay $20 a year for Skype? Probably but would the 50 or so contacts I have also pay $20, probably not all, and therefor would it retain the same value if they weren't there?

Would I pay $20 for Digg? A site I visit daily and love, nope, but only because it replicates content i would consume from elsewhere.

Would I pay $20 for Facebook - No, I find it's value falling monthly and wonder about all the people who paid for and built facebook apps last year, did they see a return?

Would I pay $20 for http://my.live.com (my rss reader) - probably but I would also expect them to make a better product and ensure that they brought out a mobile version (which they've been promising forever...but never delivered) .

It's interesting that my view is changing because I'm 2 months away from launching my own web application that I look at advertising in a different light - is $5 cpm sustainable (nope, i dont think it should really be any more than about $1-$2 for most sites) -can or even should most website apps be advertising supported?

(btw we will be launching advertising / freemium model that has upgraded features for paying customers).

So I put the question to you - what apps are you prepared to pay $20 a year for?

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Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
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