<P><FONT face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif><STRONG>Wi-Fi around Chicago..</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif><FONT size=2>The Daley Center between Clark and Dearborn is now (as of September 2003) a wi-fi hot zone. I have not personally connected there, but the word is </FONT><FONT size=2>that the signal around Daley Plaza and Block 37 is strong. Click <A href="http://www.xchicago.com/main/article.php?articleID=413">here</A> for more information. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>If you are outside of downtown Chicago,the UPS stores (formerly Mailbox Etc.) will have wi-fi access (for a fee) in mid-September as will many McDonalds (for a fee). <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,80914,00.html">UPS story</A></FONT></P>
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the people behind these new content sites are notthe same people they've replaced. These are folks who actuallycare about their visitor experience on their sites. They wanttheir visitors to come back again and are providing enough valueto visitors to actually bookmark them and do just that.
What "World Internet Real Estate Developers" have re-discoveredis that asset building is far more successful, responsible,grown up, and profitable than building spam sites.
They are starting to build sites that they are proud to show tothe world, and the world is responding with great enthusiasm!Even the engines are treating these developers with the respectand admiration they deserve.
Good content makes good "cents" too. Of course that phrase hasbeen bandied about so much in the last year that it seemed as ifeveryone was talking about it but few were actually practicingwhat they were preaching.
The value of a fairly aged content site with a few hundredvisitors a day is very high compared to just a year ago. Manypeople invest in one or two of these niche sites that arealready in the engines and getting traffic when they find themfor sale.
And a good investment it is! If you can get someone to part witha modest traffic site that is already seasoned in the engines,you are lucky to snag one for anywhere from $5,000-$100,000+depending on the niche, products, and income of the site.
The developers of rich content sites are not only walking to thebank with daily income that rivals the corporate salary theyreplaced, but can cash out of a network of niche sites at verytidy sums. A fairly large network of sites, from 100-1000 couldnet the developer millions of dollars in fact.
Who is buying? Other large developers and even very largeFortune 500 companies along with investors of all kinds who turnthe network traffic into gold of their own.
It is very much like the real estate boom after the last worldwar. Many many developers lined their pockets by developing newhousing all over the country for returning soldiers.
The internet is in dire need of great sites. If you think thenet is full, you are only partially right. Combined with somegreat sites with great information in hundreds of specialtyniches from fly fishing to scrap booking, there is also a greatdeal of junk out there taking up a lot of space.
Anyone who has been on the net for awhile has experienced herfair share of lost surfing time on disappointing, meaningless,content-less sites.
Smart niche site developers are quietly building quality,feature and content-rich sites to capitalize on this terrible"year of the spam site." We all know content is king, but it isfinally starting to pay off for the people who developcontent-rich sites in a big way these days.
Hopefully the decline of "gimmick" sites will continue for thegood of the entire internet community. If the developers ofthese sites are richly rewarded, then more power to them. Theydeserve it!
While there is an answer to almost every question a person couldever have somewhere on the net, for most surfers those answersare buried far too deeply on obscure sites to find.
With content sites being developed in thousands of niches withthe goal of being found and utilized, surfers and researchersare going to be able to quickly and conveniently find theinformation they seek on pleasant, rich sites in the near future.
And the people who develop these e-real estate assets aresupported by the income these sites generate and any partial orcomplete sales of the networks of sites that they build.
Sounds like what the internet was supposed to be in the firstplace!
About the author:Jack Humphrey is the managing partner for ContentDesk.com. Moreinformation World Internet Real Estate Development (W.I.R.E.D.)can be found at http://www.contentdesk.com/csb andhttp://www.contentsitebuilding.com
