Introduction: The Art of Content Creation

If you carefully look at how people are using the web, you can clearly see there are two major categories of them which always dependent on each other. The first is the tool makers, and the second is the users who uses the tool. This free platform, Blogger, is a tool that enabling people to blog or even making some decent amount of money and it's also a tool that gives tremendous power for businesses to grow more efficient than before. But how these possible? What about other tools? How big their impact on society?

Back in 1990s where websites were series of static contents in pages. Thus, the Internet was a one-way communication channel. You can read, but you can't contribute. Today, websites are applications. Which means you can do a lot more things than you could possibly did years ago on the Internet.

Google for example, organizes the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful for people is one of the greatest achievements on the Internet industry. Handling more than 1.2 billion queries per day makes Google closed to its immortality. How they survive? Yes, Google's main business model is advertising. A full ninety-nine percent of its revenue comes from advertising on its various properties, including YouTube, plus partner sites through its AdSense product. What makes this a big success is because they fulfills the need of their advertisers - targeted audience. To achieve this, they need people like us to participate on their programs and they will pay for the commissions to those who deserved. The win-win situation implies.

Groupon, on the other hand recently change the way people do business. The approach on their system encouraging people to buy things. Of course, but cheaper. Currently their service is only available in the US. But what the world would be if this approach penetrates to the entire world? Pretty amazing! Yes, and that's how powerful the web could possibly be. It change people, and people change the world.

What about the rest of us? What we can do then?

Making money online is not a myth. Yes, it's hard. You're going to hit a lot of obstacles and you can't be the sort of person who gets demoralized easily. But what I realized from most of great and successful people, they have something in common. They love what they do. They're always telling me this indirectly, whether I want to start a startup, a blog, or do anything else, I've got to love it. If that's not the case, I've got to find what I love. This really make sense. Because you don't really need to think about it to agree. Life is too short to fooling around and I have to trust and keep believing on God's provisions.

So what I am going to do now? Blogging? Start a startup or something?

Depends. The world that we are living now is so unpredictable that I need to be able to modify my dreams on the fly. So I am learning.

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On a side note, today is my 25th birthday
and this is the first post for this blog.

Then, Happy Birthday to both of us! :)

27 OCTOBER 2010

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