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I've included links to a few relevant Quora threads here:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-Posterous-business-model

http://www.quora.com/Posterous/How-does-Posterous-make-money

http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-make-money

http://www.quora.com/How-exactly-will-Tumblr-monetize-Other-...

http://www.quora.com/Tumblr/How-does-Tumblr-generate-revenue

http://www.quora.com/How-do-free-blog-publishing-platforms-e...

http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-monetize-blogging-as-the-blo...

There is surprisingly little detail here, though, possibly suggesting that the companies haven't quite figured it out yet!

This is a nice comment from one of your links: Luis Felipe Lanz, Intrapreneur, software architect, tec...

In my humble opinion, Posterous seems to be following the same strategy than Foursquare, Twitter or even Quora, start for free until get a consolided installed base users, then start side business around publicity.

That sounds uncomfortably familiar to us veterans of the '99 crash.

until adwords, what was the Google business model?

Wasn't it «being part of Stanford» originally?

Larry and Sergey started Google, at which time it was no longer a stanford research project, many years before AdWords.

In fact, they were very resistant to the idea of have any advertisements and were adamant in maintaining clean search results.

Three or four strong companies emerging from the carnage of thousands and thousands of others doesn't sound like any more now fun than it was the first time.

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