Bookmarks vom 31-10-2008

While Twitter has been less than forthcoming on how they plan to monetize their service, there is no shortage of ideas from third parties on ways to get paid for spending time with Twitter. From pay-to-tweet to selling off the real estate on your Twitter background, there are any number of ways you could be making money off the service. Now, there's another service that – much like RSS-based advertising – offers to pay you for advertisements that run in the midst of your tweet stream. Meet Magpie, an ad network for Twitter.

Blogging is fast, informal and easy to do. Spelling, grammar and factual errors happen – but do they make a material impact on the success of a blogger? A small but interesting survey run by crowdsourced copy editing service GooseGrade concludes that they do.

Silicon Alley Insider hat eine Übersicht über Webdienste erstellt, welche neben kostenlosen Basis-Accounts nun auch kostenpflichtige Pro-Accounts anbieten, oder planen, diese anzubieten