Technically Speaking

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

I wish I had Pete/Kristen’s tip box! Not their “tip box” as in money, but all the tips they receive on new sites or cool sites. Two out of the four are all credited back to their work. The other two are from two of my favorite bloggers. We shall play leap frog:

Weblo - Sounds like another million dollar idea to me.

GoRunEasy - A new social network, explained well by Kristen.

Blogger’s Choice Awards - I vote Ali as one of the top writers out there!

ThinkFree - New Wordpress bloggers plugin where you can embed Word and Excel spreadsheets into your blog. Another great post by Kristen.

Technically Speaking, it’s been quite a busy Thursday. Has my chair moved? Has anyone stopped by to say “hello”?