While acknowledging that Grouper was bought more for its P2P and video editing technology than its user numbers – the dollars per user worked out to suggest a YouTube valuation of around $2 billion.
In October, for instance, Linden Lab paid a total of 917,000 real dollars to users in exchange for their virtual ones.
Facebook gets ad dollars, and users never leave the Facebook site.
Accessories range from 1 – 35 star dollars with users able to buy additional star dollars at the rate of 10 star dollars to $1.
Accessories range from 1 – 35 star dollars with users able to buy additional star dollars at a rate set by the site.
This new move speaks to its need to put dollars over users, at a time when Google's cost-per-click continues to decline – a drop that Google has been staving off with more impressions, keeping Wall St. happy.
Microsoft Office 15 will still cost money, of course, and though the price has not yet been announced, if it is anything over zero dollars, many users will stick with the goodly freeness of Google Docs.
Because, as I found out in a later study, if I had increased the cash amount to as little as five dollars, the users would have taken the money almost all of the time even though they knew they would have to wait several weeks until the end of the study before getting the cash.
It gets 30 cents of every dollar that users spend with its social gaming partner, Zynga.
