There are so many web 2.0 sites out there and many offer paid accounts. My question for you is how many of these do you pay for?
I can think of two sites I pay for annually or biannually, those being Flickr and last.fm, but I ‘pay-as-I-go’ on services such as Skype and World Tracker.
I also have a number of accounts which I would usually pay for free of charge. One example is BlogShares, where I payed a fellow member in in-game currency for a premium account, and another being Box.net where I have a premium account as I racked up enough referrals.
Which sites do you pay for an account on?
basecamp, zoho project
you PAY for flickr and lastFm???!!
I can understand why one would pay for flickr as it does give extra space for photos but unless you’re actually selling them then why not just upload a selection of the best ones.
As for lastfm I didn’t even know they had a premium service. What in the world does that offer that’s value for money - do you get to see what madonna or britney is listening to - or access to even more useless metrics!?
I’m happy not to be ashamed on my ignorance because as far as I’m concerned, given that I’ve used lastfm and flickr for over a year I should know. It’ not a matter of me not being hip to the jive but rather their lack effective marketing.
So to answer your question - not much! I either don’t know what these sites offer at premium level or I don’t care. I tend to only use these big social network sites to get a bigger footprint anyway - I don’t ‘like’ them as such.
I don’t think I pay for any.
I might end up paying for a site traffic service like crazyegg or tapefailure one day though. But not just yet.
The only one I pay for is Skype, but i really don’t use it that much.