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I have taken this coming week off from my full time job so I can work on some of my projects. I had also accrued over 20 days annual leave so I thought I had better use some. It’s a great feeling blogging on a Sunday night knowing that I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. For some reason though, I did feel a bit of an empty feeling when I handed in my leave application. I guess it’s a change in an 18 month old routine. I’m sure I’ll cope ;)

Something I never considered was increasing the amount I make per click through instead of trying to increase the total number of clicks. I’ve come across some ads paying $12 per ad! I’ve heard reports of ads paying $30 per click. That’s crazy! But if Google will pay me a portion of that to send traffic their way then I’m all too happy help out.

In a previous “post”:http://alexpooley.com/articles/2005/11/09/heres-some-internet-business-opportunities I mentioned three business opportunities for the taking. Today “AggregateKnowledge”:http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/ have announced they are going to create a platform that will facilitate the sharing and aggregation of knowledge between independent web sites. Initially they are looking to create a recommendation web service similar to Amazon’s recommendation service, but where the service is an aggregation of recommendations from various sources. You can read “Chris Law’s blog”:http://1000flowersbloom.typepad.com/1000_flowers_bloom/2005/11/aggregate_knowl.html or “Paul Martino’s blog”:http://wsfinder.typepad.com/web_service_finder/2005/11/aggregate_knowl.html for further details.

My primary concerns were whether there was enough demand for the service, and what type of business model could work with this service. I can’t find any hints to either of my concerns in their blogs. Another concern I have after paging through their site is that it’s hard to 1) Describe the concept succinctly and 2) To provide adequate infrastructure where it’s easy for _anyone_ to use this service on their site.

Regardless, this is a cool idea and it’s great they’re taking a chance. I wish these guys the best of luck.