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Weblo, a site that believes the virtual world should be for you to take, also believes that you should be able to monetize your Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking pages. Their theory is that you created the content and these sites wouldn’t be where they are without your content.

Now Facebook says that advertising is against what they would like to see happen. Without saying those nasty 3 letters, we all know this really means “against their terms of service”.

Facebook does not allow users to sell ads on their profile pages. Chris Kelly, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, told me on Nov. 6 that is because Facebook does not want people’s profile pages to become cluttered.

“We don’t want a free-for-all,” he said.

Taking a look at the Weblo site it seems they are more than about selling ads on social networks. They really want you to own the virtual world. Quite an interesting concept.

Weblo is a parallel universe that is the only virtual world based on the real world. Members own and manage websites that are virtual replicas of real cities, states, properties, domains and celebrities. Members earn real money via hits, Internet ads and by selling or auctioning assets for a profit. Members enhance their online portfolios by claiming popular social networking profiles, blogs, emails and videos in Weblo’s Calculate Your InterNET Worth section.

Technically Speaking, on one hand I believe they do have some validity in what they are saying. On the other hand it seems to be an extension of the million dollar page theory. Either way, Weblo is a site that you may want to keep your eye on, or join if you want to make some real money in a virtual world. Corvette wheels

This has to be about the stupidest thing I have read in a long time. The older as well as leaders that are in my generation make me shake my head every single day and go “You really don’t get it, do you? Computers are a tool, you f’k'n tool - they do NOT think!”

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net, according to residents and media reports.

Fears of Israeli “infiltration” of Syrian social networks on the Net. Ok. Come on now, think about that for a minute. Is the Syrian government really that lame that it can’t differentiate between Facebook and the “All for Sunni” network? I think my computer knows the difference when this human instructs it to go to facebook.com and allforsunni.com.

Technically Speaking, I really get a smug look on my face at the ignorance that my generation spews out as news or government news. Ok, let me go log into allforsunni dot com now, I better watch how I type it, I might end up on Facebook. GMAFB! Make better use of your time now and go digg and read about 7 dating tips!

ABC News and Facebook join hands today in order to put a political spin into the Facebook realm. This should have been done a long time ago, but it appears that they are also sponsoring (co-) a January 5th debate which is 3 days before the big New Hampshire primary.

It will be interesting to see what other news organizations decide to follow the same path into Facebook. I’m quite surprised that they waited this long since MySpace seemed to have all the politics going on early on. Why they wouldn’t approach a Facebook deal is beyond me. At least ABC news has made the right steps, and it should be interesting to those that are following the 2008 election. One candidate that probably is licking his chops is Ron Paul who did quite well virally on MySpace.

ABC News and Facebook have formally established a partnership — the site’s first with a news organization — that allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and video and participate in polls and debates, all within a new “U.S. Politics” category.

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There is one blogger out there that seems to sense what I was referring to with the local guys who run ImThere. I have already termed it to them as the next generation of social networking.

No longer will you have to be a part of a big group, but smaller groups that have the same services will be more of what the future entails. Now many of you are use to your Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc. and I’m not saying they will go extinct, but what I am saying is the proliferation of the niche social network will take over.

Many feel that just because I’m older, it’s not the case. That my ideas are way past their prime and the internet is passing me by.

I was at a social gathering at my club this evening and I had the pleasure to talk to some of the younger people who just joined. Younger being in their early to mid 30’s.

Well if you believe that, than I have a bridge to sell you in Las Vegas! You see, the perception that is sold online to the masses is that everytime MySpace or Facebook has a conference announcing something, that it’s the be all and end all to everyone else. That is not the case, as they only have a bigger audience.

Audience’s are a funny thing actually. Most of the time, you could have a huge audience and if you are lucky to hit 7% of the people there; meaning you strike some sort of bond with them or click, you are lucky. The other 93% will be answering their e-mail, text messaging, or bored and only there in body and not mind.

So you now have 7% of the 1,000 people in your audience. So approximately 70 people are there really paying any attention. It’s all just a big percentage game. A good example is today’s announced Facebook new way of advertising. All good, all nice to hear. But out of that big audience, how many naysayers will hit the web on their own blog in a few hours?

Now while I agree with the direction they are going, is it something that only they can accomplish? Not at all. Many companies are applauding the efforts and announcement, but yet many companies exist that are pushing towards a new advertising model.

The big difference is that other companies are pushing towards that model world wide live. Not enclosed in some social sphere that if you read the linked article at the top, it is becoming widely known as a love hate relationship by the hand that feeds them.

The conversation really got into a frenzy when we go to the love hate relationship people have with Facebook and MySpace,

So there you have it. The 30 somethings are tired of the big groups. The big groups are making announcement after announcement in the past week, and if you think hard - maybe you get that only 7% of the people are listening and paying attention.

Technically Speaking, that 7% quote of course goes back to the man - DLR. Quite amazing that I actually see the application of the 7% rule in real life situations in the 21st century we all live in.

Speaking of fake, Fake Steve Jobs said that Facebook raised $500 million. Even though that could be fake, this morning it appears that this article says that it is true.

Technically Speaking, if all of this money for Facebook is all a fact now, I would say Facebook had a very good day yesterday.