Comments on: Buy! Sell! People!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:36:00 +0000

And an update: They did not say a number in terms of their ad packages, but will figure that out once they roll out the platform. I think they did say they wanted to take less from advertisers than Google does. But I don’t know what that means, or if they actually know Google’s cut.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:57:22 +0000

Jon, the stock buys say they come with a 5% commission. I’m not sure if that will be the same when we’re playing with real money.

I also can’t recall if they said an actual figure for the ad deals. I don’t know if they did, but I’m double-checking.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:46:32 +0000

How big of a cut do they get?

By: JillPR

JillPR — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:12:33 +0000

I will definitely be interested to see where the advertising part goes, as I don’t think too many people will be open to “selling” their status on whatever platform.

For some kinds of businesses, and for any blog open to advertising, it could be a great opportunity.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:02:23 +0000

I just saw you on there Jill!
Unfortunately I am currently out of money to buy stocks…but I’ll buy into your influence once I’ve got some cash.

I don’t know if it does ask you to sell out. I talked with a couple of people about this at the launch, and as I mentioned in the story, I don’t think people are going to be slapping ads into their tweets or status updates. And it may take some work from Empire Avenue with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc… to work their way onto any ad spaces those platforms provide.

Not every business would get much out of it. Unless they were trying to convince other businesses they were a good place to advertise. Though, I guess you could do that like I am, and I’d just tell the advertisers their option was this website.