Friday, February 16, 2007
Paying for Friends Not Worth It
PaidSpaces.com is a new social network that aspires to compete with MySpace by allowing people to put advertisements on their personal web pages so that they can share in the revenue that their traffic generates.While allowing people to share in the wealth, that's not enough of a hook to get people to switch their loyalties and give up their current web profiles. PaidSpaces.com's press release says the company is considering allowing people to place AdSense ads on their personal pages to generate revenue. This will produce very little money for the individuals since AdSense pays so little per page view, and is enticement for people to throw any old content on their pages and participate in click fraud to increase their revenues. Also, if making money is the endgame, people will contact as many folks as possible, devaluing what a "friend" is supposed to be and promoting spam.
And maybe I'm not supposed to get the reference because I'm over 40 and married (and therefore not a MySpace user), but who the hell is Tom?
If PaidSpaces.com wants to succeed, they'll need to come up with a better hook (not to mention a better name). People are already finding ways to monetize their MySpace pages to bring them fame and fortune.
Posted By John Gartner at 10:54 AM
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