Virtual currency monetization and payments are hot on the Facebook Platform right now, and Inside Facebook has the exclusive on a new startup that is helping social network application and online game developers do just that. Gambit, which has been operating in stealth mode for six months, is launch...

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, serving nearly 58 million customers daily. McDonalds started in 1940 and yet in February 2009, 69 years after it launched, it again turned in a stellar sales......

New startup AdNectar is helping Facebook Platform developers monetize their applications by connecting them with brands who want to reach Facebook users through sponsored virtual gifts. The company, founded by former Stanford Graduate School of Business students Nir Eyal and Michal Bortnik as well a...

The virtual economy analytics space is certainty white hot, and Palo Alto-based Twofish is announcing today a new platform for social game and virtual world developers to analyze their virtual economies and maximize virtual goods revenue. The Twofish Elements platform consists of item and inventory ...

fbExchange, an early Facebook Platform ad network created by the team at 30Boxes, has been acquired by Traffic Marketplace, Om Malik reported recently. Terms of the deal were not diclosed. Back in 2007, 30Boxes originally launched its calendar application for the Facebook Platform, and then helped Z...

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If you want to make some extra money from your site, an effective monetization method is reviewing products that help you with your web work. Make a list of products you use in your work and see if there is an affiliate program for that product. Then, write in-depth reviews of those products. Here a...

My rogueish sense of humour Before the whole shmozzle starts, I thought I’d put the “social media assets� up online (video to youtube, Powerpoint to slideshare and so on). Easier to retweet if you want. The Powerpoint presentation Twitter for Business and AdTech Sydney ......

John Hirst, head of global content and podcasts with the UK’s Global Radio group, says that podcasting has the potential to “create new and lucrative revenue streams” for newspaper, radio and television businesses. Global Radio has over sixty stations throughout Great Britain, includin...

originally published at Loki PartnersUpdate: Benchmark partner Bill Gurley just published a similar, but far more analytical post about the same topic (here)After having the same conversation multiple times last month at Casual Connect Europe (see post here), as well......