Comments on: How To Monetize a Social Network: MySpace and Facebook Should Follow TenCent http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/03/09/how-to-monetize-a-social-network-myspace-and-facebook-should-follow-tencent/ ...focusing on the evolution and economics of high technology business and strategy. By day, I am a venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:25:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Moneitizong members of social networks http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/03/09/how-to-monetize-a-social-network-myspace-and-facebook-should-follow-tencent/#comment-3940 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:30:23 +0000 http://abovethecrowd.com/?p=135#comment-3940 Lots has been said on Monetizing social networks. but little has been said on monetizing social activity of members. members are doing many social activities like commenting, bloging, article writing, posting videos, photos, making friends, networking with people. It is these activities that make a social network big. also people are talking about monetizing from these networks for revenues for the social networks. But really speaking why no one has spoken about monetizing the members who are doing these activities.

Once such monetizing is done this could be a good stream of income generation for members, and they can use this money for further online purchases.

at http://www.funbyu.com one such effort is being made

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