Angel investor Ron Conway in on stage at or Real-Time Stream Crunchup even. He has the top 10 monetization opportunities in real-time data — like David Letterman’s lists. Counting down: 10. Lead generation 9. Coupons 8. Analytics 7. CRM 6. Payments - If I was at PayPal, I would be looking at this. 5. Commerce 4. User authentication - Corporate accounts want to pay. 3. Syndication

of new ads - Twitter itself could just syndicate. Multi-billion. 2. Content advertising and advertising context and display 1. Acquiring followers There’s at least 5 billion of monetization right there — at least, Conway says. Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

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