Offerpal and IMVU have announced they are teaming up to monetize virtual chat rooms. While many people will grasp the potential of where this is leading, many more will question if this is a micro-windfall or a future of mega bucks.…

There’s a new affiliate on the prowl, and it means serious business - at least for itself. TweetBucks has come up with a great business model to leverage Twitter to make itself money. Marketers who use TweetBucks “make 70% of…

Okay, so everyone’s a-twitter about social networking. Nielsen Online clocked 7 million unique visitors to Twitter during the month of February, about a 1400 percent increase from a year earlier. eMarketer predicts there’ll be over 18 million Twitter users by…

Spare Change, the self-described “first and largest micro-payments system for social networks” will be acquired by PlaySpan, which monetizes virtual worlds, online games, and social networks and gonna be a micro-transaction party.

While the acquisition may seem to be an odd move…

A new kind of micropayment is apparently getting traction, through the site Swoopo, where users pay $0.75 each time they bid for an auction item. That’s right; you pay $0.75 for the entertainment pleasure of bidding, regardless if you win.…

With peer-to-peer marketing and advertising now ubiquitous online, new platforms designed to create sociable widgets and embeddable media rich content are propagating across the web. Widgetbox, SpringWidgets, and Sprout are among countless new applications empowering users to create personalized widgets, social…

In an era when we’re all interacting with the world through our gadgets, be they mobile devices or GPS systems, our relationship with information and each another is drastically changing. The old media model of one-way broadcast communication has morphed…

If you’re twittering and you know it, clap your hands, “clap, clap.”

Now that the song is stuck in both our heads, I will commence with the skinny on how-to use Twitter directories to help build your professional network. Nowadays, Twitter…

To a bookworm a bookmark is simply a method of not losing your place. For social entrepreneurs like Larry Halff they are the building blocks of online communities. Coming from a cultural anthropology and sociology background Larry was always interested…

Are The Affiliate Walls Crumbling?

Jeff Molander thinks so in his latest piece and I must disagree, although I think drop shipping holds promise. The walls of affiliate marketing are not “crumbling”, but the boundaries are shifting. This shift is happening for…