I was inspired by Gregarious' post on the pervasiveness of streams. Streams to me represent another step towards the end of top-down broadcast and the beginning of a confluence of information and communication exchange patterns that function multi-dimensionally. At this point, anyone who is active with social platforms and social tools has streams of information revolving around them. Streams are pervasive, (as Gregarious points out) in that they persist in cyberspace long after we take the actions that add to our streams.
The Significance Streams |
Submitted by Jackie Peters on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 21:21
Submitted by Jackie Peters on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 21:21
Monetizing Social Networks |
Submitted by Jackie Peters on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 23:58
This is going to be a short post...
Many social networks are still trying to figure out how to monetize while others are monetizing off of them. People are monetizing Facebook apps, selling Facebook apps and Twitter clients. Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not make it part of your API agreement that any company making a profit from your API needs to give you a cut? The APIs could still be free, and if an app makes money, the API provider gets a piece. After all, isn't the apps success based largely on the technology provided by the API provider? Just seems like it makes sense to me. I'd love to hear your opinion.
