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A Survey of Revenue Models for Current Generation Social Software’s Systems

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In this paper we survey a number of different social software websites and analyze their revenue models. The main revenue models that we analyzed included - advertising, premium memberships, affiliate programs, donations and merchandize sale. The survey will categorize different social software based upon the revenue model being adopted. The main aim of this paper is to highlight the need for studying revenue sharing models which attempt to reward the users in the online community for participating in a particular social software website. A total of 7 revenue sharing websites would be discussed to show the importance of revenue sharing.

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  1. Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

    Kevin Chai, Vidyasagar Potdar & Elizabeth Chang

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Chai, K., Potdar, V., Chang, E. (2007). A Survey of Revenue Models for Current Generation Social Software’s Systems. In: Gervasi, O., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007. ICCSA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74484-9_62

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