Comments on: Macedonia: Use Facebook If You Want to Flirt With Politicians http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/02/macedonia-use-facebook-if-you-want-to-flirt-with-politicians/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:38:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Global Voices Online » Featured Author: Elena Ignatova http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/02/macedonia-use-facebook-if-you-want-to-flirt-with-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-1600997 Global Voices Online » Featured Author: Elena Ignatova Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:16:29 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=52152#comment-1600997 [...] information in Macedonian government and society. Among the posts we mention in the interview are: Macedonia: Use Facebook If You Want to Flirt With Politicians, The Balkans: “Whose Is This Song?”, and Macedonia: Student Protest Ends in [...] [...] information in Macedonian government and society. Among the posts we mention in the interview are: Macedonia: Use Facebook If You Want to Flirt With Politicians, The Balkans: “Whose Is This Song?”, and Macedonia: Student Protest Ends in [...]

]]> By: El Oso » Archive » Interview with Elena Ignatova of Metamorphosis http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/02/macedonia-use-facebook-if-you-want-to-flirt-with-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-1600563 El Oso » Archive » Interview with Elena Ignatova of Metamorphosis Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:19:56 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=52152#comment-1600563 [...] information in Macedonian government and society. Among the posts we mention in the interview are: Macedonia: Use Facebook If You Want to Flirt With Politicians, The Balkans: “Whose Is This Song?”, and Macedonia: Student Protest Ends in [...] [...] information in Macedonian government and society. Among the posts we mention in the interview are: Macedonia: Use Facebook If You Want to Flirt With Politicians, The Balkans: “Whose Is This Song?”, and Macedonia: Student Protest Ends in [...]

]]> By: william http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/02/macedonia-use-facebook-if-you-want-to-flirt-with-politicians/comment-page-1/#comment-1528966 william Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:23:30 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=52152#comment-1528966 Do not use face book for anything. It is a closed source application that makes hundreds of millions of dollars on the back of members and community content creators. Face Book sucks the life out of members and communities, stop feeding Rupert money, he does not need it...and it is your content...Maybe the revenue model should put members and communities first....Facebook continues to follow their stale old act of creating large amounts of revenue on the backs of members and their content. Facebook is easily worth at least a billion, and where is the value coming from other than members/the communities content and activities. How much ad revenue is Facebook sharing with members that generate ad revenue for them ? Are they giving anything back to the community that has put them where they are ? I am technology consultant, and this summer I became so feed up with the share cropper mentality of sites like Facebook that I decided to build an application that shares the wealth that is created with the community. We also have a stand alone ad service and we have a granular micro revenue sharing service that allows members to share their revenue with Friends, Groups, or Causes. And unlike Facebook and the rest we will be releasing most of the service to the open source community because we know we are not the smartest guys in the room. Do not use face book for anything. It is a closed source application that makes hundreds of millions of dollars on the back of members and community content creators.
Face Book sucks the life out of members and communities, stop feeding Rupert money, he does not need it…and it is your content…Maybe the revenue model should put members and communities first….Facebook continues to follow their stale old act of creating large amounts of revenue on the backs of members and their content.

Facebook is easily worth at least a billion, and where is the value coming from other than members/the communities content and activities.

How much ad revenue is Facebook sharing with members that generate ad revenue for them ? Are they giving anything back to the community that has put them where they are ?

I am technology consultant, and this summer I became so feed up with the share cropper mentality of sites like Facebook that I decided to build an application that shares the wealth that is created with the community.

We also have a stand alone ad service and we have a granular micro revenue sharing service that allows members to share their revenue with Friends, Groups, or Causes.

And unlike Facebook and the rest we will be releasing most of the service to the open source community because we know we are not the smartest guys in the room.

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