{"id":3833,"date":"2010-02-20T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2010-02-20T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T23:17:00","slug":"making-money-off-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3833","title":{"rendered":"Making Money off the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my Facebook friends play Farmville. I don\u2019t, but others do. Ever wonder how much money they make off of you? <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/02\/how-social-games-make-money-lessons-from-farmville.html\" target=\"_blank\">This LA Times article gives an estimate<\/a>.  Here\u2019s some data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social games cost between $100,000 to $300,000 to make.\n<li>Between 3% and 5% of people who play social games pay money for virtual goods in the game or sign up for advertising &#8220;offers&#8221; that generate cash for the developer.\n<li>Farmville is played by about 31 million people every day.<\/ul>\n<p>So, do the math: Suppose that that each person who plays a social game generates, on average, a penny a day. Multiply that penny by the number of days in a year, 365, and then by the number of people who play the game daily&#8230; and voila: $113 million a year. So add some programmers, and there\u2019s still a tidy profit. Think about that the next time you play.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you could be like me an just order from Amazon. Those of you, like me, in California: We may need to keep our eyes open. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-amazon20-2010feb20,0,3686007.story\" target=\"_blank\">The California Legislature wants Amazon to pay sales tax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[P.S.: To my Facebook friends who are also on LJ: I did a friend-only post earlier today regarding a situation I would like opinions on. You need to be on a particular filter to read it, but you most likely are (if you are on LJ), so I would welcome your opinion. If you are not on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LiveJournal<\/a> (LJ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/create.bml\" target=\"_blank\">create an account<\/a>. It\u2019s free, and after you create it you can friend me (cahwyguy) and see my occasional friends-only posts that don\u2019t make it to FB. If you are not familiar with LiveJournal, it is a journaling\/blogging platform with much better privacy controls than Facebook.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my Facebook friends play Farmville. I don\u2019t, but others do. Ever wonder how much money they make off of you? This LA Times article gives an estimate. Here\u2019s some data: Social games cost between $100,000 to $300,000 to make. Between 3% and 5% of people who play social games pay money for virtual <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3833\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-lj-xfer","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}