Business - Written Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Derek Pokora - 4 Comments

Monetizing social networking platforms. Put your money where your data is?

You mean the “just-give-it-away-and-they-will-come-and-we’ll-be-rich automatron is as broken now as it was in 2001”?

Three social media giants, three giant media announcements: Ning, Twitter, Facebook. In only seven days, these three companies have announced major changes to their products and/or business models. Is it a sign of things to come? How will each of these companies answer the question of how to turn its growth into revenue? Continue…