“Message from Jeremy: To all Tech IT Easy readers, who could obviously not necessarily remember the initial announcement, I have invited my friend Steve to help me try to provide you, dear readership, with everyday better technology insights. Steve’s mission statement is that there’s no mission statement: what matters most here is to raise the right issues on underlying market trends, bringing to light new software, Internet services and consumer electronic devices. Steve, the floor is yours…”

    FYI, I am in the process of completing my working paper (its subject being “The different business models of individual user-connecting websites”). Basically I am exploring the business models of any services built upon connecting individual users, be it dating sites (Meetic, Match), auction systems (eBay), job boards (Monster, JobEtudiant), pure Web 2.0 services (Flickr, deli.cio.us) professional social networks (LinkedIn), or even “social life centers” (MySpace, Facebook) – the latter being a concept I have just invented in order to point out the extraordinary possibilities of what were previously personal homepages or advanced personak social networks.

Rigt now I am trying to understand the revenue stream of a few significant players, in order to infer a general picture for the revenue mix of each category of websites. So here’s my input: as you can see, some boxes are empty. Besides, the revenue mix here are just suggestions I propose thanks to the examples+general feeling (sorry, no serious material there).

So, can you help me fill in the box ? And do you agree with my understanding of each business model ?

NB: UGC stands for “user-generated content”. Billing could be either pay-per-view or paying a fixed fee for any service.

PS: While I am considering “eBay”’s revenues, I am not interested by eBay as a group (which includes PayPal, Skype, etc…) but rather by the actual revenues of the auction service www.eBay.com

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