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Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

Guest — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:11:50 -0000

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Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

Robert Tolmach — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:06:58 -0000

$35 million a year on virtual gifts!
Now, the dollars you spend to send virtual gifts can also make the world a better place.

A new nonprofit app on facebook, Changing The Present, makes it easy. Your dollar goes to the nonprofit you choose, and the picture your friend receives shows what you helped accomplish.

THEN: send a picture of a cupcake
NOW: help feed a hungry child

THEN: send a picture of lips
NOW: help fund cleft palate surgery for a child's smile

THEN: send a picture of a flower
NOW: help preserve acres of the rainforest

You can choose from among more than a thousand $1 donation gifts from hundreds of leading nonprofits.

Imagine the impact we can make together as this new kind of gift catches on!

Please help spread the word.

Here’s the app:
http://www.new.facebook.com...

And here’s the related website: http://www.ChangingThePrese...

( Full disclosure: my company, WellGood LLC, consults to ChangingThePresent )

Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

Internetgeek — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:43:38 -0000

Hmmm, yeah why do people buy these things when they can actually use the free version???
Clearly there are a lot of rich people out there with nothing better to do with their money.

Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

Used Textbooks — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:52:49 -0000

Good stuff. Recently I have seen many of my friends praising about the service and features of Facebook which I was wondering that what the are offering that has made them crazy about it. When I saw that and tried to give some of my hours to it. I was also amazed to see how entertaining it is to be on facebook and such kind of stuff like virtual gifts makes it more entertaining to use.

Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

chudson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:20:08 -0000

Good article, Eric. We'll be exploring a lot of what makes virtual goods work on social networks and on the web in general at the upcoming Virtual Goods Summit in October (http://www.vgsummit2008.com)

Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

blah — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:15:55 -0000

who are these morons buying virtual gifts?

Re: Facebook’s virtual gifts may make more than $40 million this year

Zurpit — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:12:43 -0000

Wow thats alot of money, considering each one cost a dollar. I never really found the reason to spend on virtual gifts. I used my free one haha.