Interesting how the social media and web 2.0 world evolves and changes.  Websites and services come and go.  12seconds.tv joins the list of great services that have shut their doors.   Other sites that have a paying user base have been shutting down their free service.  Ning can no longer be used without at least a minimal monthly fee.  And there are other blogging services that have started to drop their free blog services.

This whole world of free social sites and services could change in coming few years.  Facebook has recently started to say that they are a profitable company, and youtube hopes to be profitable by the end of the year, but twitter still isn’t making a net profit.

But one thing is for sure, the internet is a place where you can come up with very creative ways to make money.  Think about it, there are millions, even billions of dollars that are being made by companies and people simply by you using the internet.  You don’t even have to use your credit card, or even spend a penny.  Just by using the internet you are bound to be generating revenue for somebody.   You are supporting all of these online companies, whether you click on a sponsored search result, happen to view a sponsored tweet, see a short ad at the beginning of a youtube video, or even just update you facebook status.