If Tubes made many adult webmasters obsolete...
 

then the Internet is also making REAL ESTATE brokers obsolete: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,7207801.story

For decades, agents generally had the only reliable access to complete, detailed listings of all properties for sale. They would select homes from the lists to show buyers, then drive them around to view properties.

Sellers relied on their agents to research other home sales to set a list price and to talk up the property to other agents representing potential buyers.

Now, free websites provide home sales listings as well as the prices that homes sold for -- valuable information for prospective buyers trying to fashion an offer. Some websites even enable people to buy and sell properties.

The National Assn. of Realtors sought to restrict information that Internet real estate brokerages could publish, but the U.S. Department of Justice fired back with an antitrust lawsuit.

That said, there will still be a need for realtors--it will just be a smaller pool of people providing "add on" services OR focusing on really "high touch" and "high end" segments of the market.

In adult, there's really no obsolescence (just trying to come up with a dramatic title :))--the promotion channels may change but the same basic skill sets remain. Instead of promoting "canned" adult content fare, the rise of the tubes (that phrase reminds me of Terminator: The Rise of the Machines :D) is pushing webmasters to focus on interactivity and 'custom' niche content. Behind every challenge is an opportunity.

Very true that :2 cents:

What other industries do you see being fundamentally changed by the Internet?

Music and movie industry comes to mind :winkwink:

good read! The last house I leased I actually found online on a realtors online website.. so there is still money to be made in real estate but now they must evolve and offer a better service online too in order to get buyers/ leasers to check them out.

I was going to say newspapers but well that is really not that true - aside from classifieds.

This brings up the idea of "aggregated" real estate info with "inside details" or special content. Foreclosure aggregator data? Would people pay monthly recurring for that?

I get emails daily about every foreclosure, short sale, new property on the market - along with tax sales and a few other things.
Do not have to pay either, though I am sure some would. Most just subscribe to one of the MLS out there. My agent, yes I still find a need for them just offers it all to me.

There's more industries impacted... I sense opportunity :) Someone list them :)

the realator association has alot to say about what can and cant be published online but you are right there is a ton of free info out there :)