Online communities are the stock of trade in the social media age.
Facebook is approaching 700 million,
Twitter 175 million,
LinkedIn about 100 million.
In China qq.com has 380 million and video.baidu.com, soso.com and image.baidu.com each have over 200 million! We tend to think of these people as "users" like we think of drug addicts, but actually they are a willing and captive audience; they are our stock stock, individual shares in the human company, and owning their profile information is going to probe to be more valuable than gold and Apple shares.
The fact is that almost all of these "users" have many social media accounts, and if someone have a social-site profile already they are much more likely to have a branded community site profile also.
This is a target of a trillion potential customers!





