While reading this article, which took me to a blog posting on 37signals.com, which finally brought me to the source of an interesting discussion by Anil Dash.
Theywere discussing how Flickr.com makes a fair amount of money from the adsales on it's site, and brings up that the revenue stream should beshared with the users, as it's their content that drives the traffic,etc.
Here's a quote:But interestingness in Flickr doesn’t pay. At least not yet. Non-prousers are seeing ads around my photos, but Yahoo’s not sharing thewealth with me, even though I’ve created a draw. Flickr’s plenty open,t