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not going to work, checkout Marc Andreessen's take on his own version of the same concept: Ning. Edit: typo Xing <-> Ning

brador 12y ago
Why won't it work?
- tsu_question 12y ago
  One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue). One way to solve it could be to pool the revenue and to position Tsu like this: "90% of revenue goes to a good cause of your choice (climate, humanitarian, etc.), not to 1 huge corporation" Edit: Every profile would then get a "I Donated $x today" badge (visible publicly) as a feel-good engine. You could then convert the amount to real things like "I paid 2 meals in a 3rd World country today" or "planted 3 trees", depending on your choice of the cause.
  - reitanqild 12y ago
    > One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue). Thats $60 a year? A nice discount on most gadgets. Am I wrong?
    - tsu_question 12y ago
      > A nice discount on most gadgets Or 1 month of a life in a 3rd World country. What's more important to us?
  - hucker 12y ago
    I think many would care about $5/month, it certainly is better than nothing, but there is no way that the average user will get even one tenth of that per month.
  - rapidlb 12y ago
    I don't care about $5 / month, but a lot of users would. But think about content creators (musicians, artists, athletes, etc.) even with a small fan base, they get rewarded few hundred dolla per month. If they stick to the concept, then the regular poor users will follow them.
- crazychrome 12y ago
  How much do you value your privacy? How about I generously offer you $1 per month? Feel insulted? it's exactly Tsū's plan. (consider fb has 1.3b users and it's q2 earning 2.9b, $1 per month is indeed a generous offer) joke aside, the fact is, when you talk revenue sharing to users, they/we always over-evaluate ourselves, and you can never match the expectation.
oevi 12y ago
I think you meant Ning [1]. Xing [2] is the German LinkedIn. [1] http://www.ning.com http://www.ning.com [2] https://www.xing.com https://www.xing.com
- rapidlb 12y ago
  I really don't see any correlation at all, except doing some advertising for ning.com...

brador 12y ago

Why won't it work?

tsu_question 12y ago
One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue). One way to solve it could be to pool the revenue and to position Tsu like this: "90% of revenue goes to a good cause of your choice (climate, humanitarian, etc.), not to 1 huge corporation" Edit: Every profile would then get a "I Donated $x today" badge (visible publicly) as a feel-good engine. You could then convert the amount to real things like "I paid 2 meals in a 3rd World country today" or "planted 3 trees", depending on your choice of the cause.
- reitanqild 12y ago
  > One issue could be that the $ argument won't work with 99% of users b/c they don't generate enough traffic (i.e. who really cares about, say, $5/month of revenue). Thats $60 a year? A nice discount on most gadgets. Am I wrong?
  - tsu_question 12y ago
    > A nice discount on most gadgets Or 1 month of a life in a 3rd World country. What's more important to us?
- hucker 12y ago
  I think many would care about $5/month, it certainly is better than nothing, but there is no way that the average user will get even one tenth of that per month.
- rapidlb 12y ago
  I don't care about $5 / month, but a lot of users would. But think about content creators (musicians, artists, athletes, etc.) even with a small fan base, they get rewarded few hundred dolla per month. If they stick to the concept, then the regular poor users will follow them.
crazychrome 12y ago
How much do you value your privacy? How about I generously offer you $1 per month? Feel insulted? it's exactly Tsū's plan. (consider fb has 1.3b users and it's q2 earning 2.9b, $1 per month is indeed a generous offer) joke aside, the fact is, when you talk revenue sharing to users, they/we always over-evaluate ourselves, and you can never match the expectation.

oevi 12y ago

I think you meant Ning [1]. Xing [2] is the German LinkedIn. [1] http://www.ning.com http://www.ning.com [2] https://www.xing.com https://www.xing.com

rapidlb 12y ago
I really don't see any correlation at all, except doing some advertising for ning.com...