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How many backlashes can Facebook brush off though? Time to join Diaspora... http://www.joindiaspora.com/

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/557501/robertbarnessmall.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5ALzZqkHvG5b Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0800 Apple television http://robotbarnes.com/apple-television http://robotbarnes.com/apple-television

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/557501/robertbarnessmall.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5ALzZqkHvG5b Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Robert Barnes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0800 How Facebook and Twitter could make money http://robotbarnes.com/how-facebook-and-twitter-could-make-money http://robotbarnes.com/how-facebook-and-twitter-could-make-money There seems to be a great deal of angst about how these 2 big boys are going to make money. It's incredible how massive they have both become, but there isn't really a precedent for how 'social media' is supposed to pay for itself. It's not straight 'media', so it's unlikely to be just through simple advertising. Straight media, when it's passively digested, is a ripe opportunity to sell eyeballs, but there's a lot more happening when users are on Facebook and Twitter. Ads would need to work a lot harder to cut through, and despite the targeting possibilities (age, gender, interests) available, these don't appear to help.

So how about a subscription?

Obviously that's a dirty word that hasn't really worked before online, so why should it work here? Well I can see that subscribe to cable or mobile, or internet subsidised by isps? freemium model $300m 2008 - more than 150m active users Some users could not live with out it - charge more Flickr, remember the milk how much is a user worth? http://mashable.com/2009/01/16/tweetdeck-funding/

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