As social applications like Facebook, Myspace, Ning, and dozens of others attain sky high valuations few are focusing much attention on how poorly most of these social networking sites monetize their enormous traffic levels.
Microsoft’s Emerging Business guru Don Dodge, in an excellent post about Social Networking, notes an example where a Facebook application only manages to generate $6,000 More»

In Meanwhile, Back at the Plantation Nick Carr raises questions about the importance of who owns what in a social network. He looks at the recent sale of Bebo – the world’s third largest More»