Over the years I have talked to a few companies (large and small) that wanted to move forward on a platform yet maintain some legacy cruft...aka sustaining engineering. I partially declined these companies at the risk of them hiring new and then the stuff you work on you maintain for it's lifetime...but that's another story.
That said, I am curious if there is a business model being missed here. Essentially for twit pic and similar, buying up/sustaining the content and trying to figure out how to get some value out of it.
Another option would be for companies like twitter to offer a mechanism where twit pic/etc content could be snarfed up by the internet archive and when a company goes away, somehow the links to content get redirected.
That said, I am curious if there is a business model being missed here. Essentially for twit pic and similar, buying up/sustaining the content and trying to figure out how to get some value out of it.
Another option would be for companies like twitter to offer a mechanism where twit pic/etc content could be snarfed up by the internet archive and when a company goes away, somehow the links to content get redirected.