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Re: Everybody is developing on Facebook while I secretly develope for ning.

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the same way you get paid for someone using your facebook app

You mean, you don't...

If a facebook app is done right you can make a ton of money. Incentivized offers are a huge money maker when creating facebook apps.

Re: Everybody is developing on Facebook while I secretly develope for ning.

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post #9

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You mean, you don't...

If a facebook app is done right you can make a ton of money. Incentivized offers are a huge money maker when creating facebook apps.

Full stop.

Incentivizable offers are a good short term solution. I went from $60 a day to maybe $2 a day whereas subscriptions of $5/month hold steady.

Re: Everybody is developing on Facebook while I secretly develope for ning.

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Another question, has anyone made any money off a facebook app or myspace, etc.? I'm not convinced that providing entertainment services would be monitizable period. Thus you add value for them, spend money on servers, get 100k users, that pay you nothing.

Re: Everybody is developing on Facebook while I secretly develope for ning.

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My first thought was how much this sounds like "All my friends are using Facebook while I secretly am using Ning." A social network's not very helpful if you're the only one on there. ;-)

But the network effects are far different for app developers than for users. Good luck, let us know how it goes!

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