But their picture at facebook already change. Its more pretty than before.

I was also on the social networking website, but what you’re saying is a little off.

I was drawn in by the notion that if we were one of the top point earners, we would win an iPhone. Which I did not, but they displayed pictures of those who did on the site.

I joined the site to play some cool games, and interact with some cool people…and just maybe I’d be one of the winners of the iPhones. Good enough for me.

I also have Facebook, so I just added their application–which seems a lot more promising in that you are able to redeem points for iPhones, regardless of if you are the top point earner or not.

Ditto for #58

As for #60 – frequent flyer miles don’t really make you spend more $, they just cause you to spend more of your money with a certain airline. I fly United, so I might pay $5-$10 more for my flight to be on United, but if it costs $50 more, I’m going on American, Delta or wherever. I don’t really so how UrTurn would seriously cost the users any money.

I just signed up on urturn a few days ago. I added the application to my facebook account, invited some friends, got some points. And then I kind of had the same feeling you did–ok, what now? I am not even close to any of these prizes. So I kind of gandered a long and saw that I could sell the points? Um, yes please!

I posted some points on the marketplace (300) and someone actually bought them for 3 bucks. Ok, so 3 bucks, big deal. But, who cares! I earned those 3 bucks in a matter of days…and could actually add up. I don’t see myself as one of those people who are going to save up to buy something like a giftcard or whatever, so why not make some cash?

The thing with frequent flyer programs are that they draw you into spending more money than you normally would in order to rack up your miles. And then they are earning all kinds of interest off of you…super. At least with this…i am only spending a little more time on Facebook.

There are a few things I am noticing about UrTurn. First, when you go to redeem your points it says there are limited quantities available so no guarantee to get anything. Second, the marketplace is only good for buying up the last few hundred to few thousand points you need towards one of the larger prizes and considering your expenditure on the last few points to be getting the prizes at a discount.

I’m interested to see if anyone has actually redeemed any prizes and sold any points. It seems like the way to really earn with this is in selling youe points to people in need of them to get to a prize. But you figure, if a person has 28K points and needs 2K more why would they not just be patient and wait for that last 2K points instead of paying? They are obviously a powerhouse if they earned that many points as it is.

I don’t see the harm in adding something where you really just go about your own business like you normally would and earn points. It’s the same principal as frequent flyer miles and rewards programs that credit cards participate in. Just like those rewards systems, the gains are not huge, but not insignificant either. They are all set up in a way that gives little incentive to go crazy to earn points, but incentive enough to go about your normal activity and use the rewards service because why not?

If anyone has ever bought and sold frequent flyer miles at sites like http://www.awardtraveler.com/ this is pretty much the same model.

While I also agree with others that the site could be improved to appear more legit (and remove ridiculous copy like “Get Juicy Prizes” haha), it’s clearly not a pyramid scheme. For something to be a pyramid scheme, it needs to COST you something in the first place (duh)…and it doesn’t look like UrTurn’s app is encouraging inviting friends any more than any other app on Facebook.

The part about pursuing revenue through app/dev partnerships is right on the money (no pun intended). I’d even take what #56 said a step further: if UrTurn can find a way to partner directly with other rewards programs like those offered by credit card companies, that will be huge in validating a virtual currency.

Look at how popular the visa and american express rewards companies have been? It’s pretty much the same thing, but with online social networks?

I can also some people becoming addicted to “exchange” type nature featured in the stock market or on the Linden exchange for second life.

I think they have some bugs to work out, as any other startup–but once they get these things flat ironed–I’m trying for that iphone

But the real problem is it isn’t working! I always get an error message…

What is the business model? Urturn rewards you based on your use of Facebook and soon Myspace, not for spamming your friends (yes you can get points by referring the app, but its the same as all the others in that respect). The revenue will come from the partnership with APPLICATIONS and APP developers which they announced in the article. The Apps are generating ad revenue and will share this revenue with Urturn as a traffic generator and pseudo analytics tool.

Its not a pyramid scheme as in order for it to be that, a user would have to be rewarded for the users they refer, and the consequent referrals from then on.

Its an honest attempt to reward people for being active on Facebook and eventually myspace. Yeah, no one person is likely to get rich… but its a fun, unique idea and has merit.

http://arborwik...org/city/UrTurn

And at the bottom: “There is a limited quantity of the prizes offered . . . ”

Sounds like a winning scheme to me! Not! There’s no guarantee this will allow a user to gain anything from their site and I’m not signing up.

you add the app to ur facebook profile, and u get points for crap you already do.

you either sell the points, buy more, or redeem the ones you bought or earned for free stuff.

please tell me whats bad about that?

Sendo recruited Henderson, a regular user of social networking sites. She was skeptical at first.

“Her first reaction was, ‘No one is going to compete with Facebook or MySpace.’ The next thing, she’s working for us,” Sendo said.