Fun Ways to Make Money Online

Social Networking
Yuwie is a social networking website much like MySpace or FaceBook, but with one big difference: Users are actually paid for the page views that they generate, and for the page views generated by the friends they have referred too! This continues for 10 'levels' with potential monthly earnings of as much as $10,000 if you refer 3 people, who refer 3 people each, who each refer 3 people... all the way down the 10 levels, with each person generating 1000 page views each month. In this way, around half of the website’s advertising revenue is distributed directly and proportionately to its user base.

Another excellent alternative is People String, a new social networking website which has only been on the scene for about 6 months and which pays out 70 percent of its advertising revenue to its members.

Second Life
Believe it or not, it's possible to make money simply by playing one of the massively multi-player online computer games! Second Life allows users to exchange any amount of the in-game currency (Linden dollars) amassed within the game back into real-world funds. Ailin Graef made the headlines in 2006 having claimed that her in-game avatar, Anshe Chung, had generated enough resources to allow her to be classified as a millionaire in reality.

Learn how to profit from your "second life" by reading The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life: Making Money in the Metaverse which will walk you through what it takes to launch and run a successful Second Life business and give you the inside tips and know–how you need to join the ranks of successful Second Life entrepreneurs.

Fantasy Stock Markets
At UpDown, users are given $1 million in play money to invest in the real stock market however they wish. Each trade costs $100 to make (virtual money) and anyone who outperforms the S&P 500 Index gets paid (real money). Each month the site dishes out cash to any member who has outperformed the S&P in the given month, and over the past 12 months (or since they joined). The UpDown also pays members weekly for submitting the best stock analyses. Interface-wise, The UpDown is very slick and basically modeled after a real-world trading application. The money comes from real investments the site makes based on the aggregate market data from the site.