Harbork is a new social network from Hong Kong. It is currently in private beta and they demo-ed it to the crowd at the Startup Hong Kong event couple weeks ago.

The idea behind this is allowing their users to monetize for the traffic that is generated from the content uploads, including videos, classifieds, polls, audio, files, photos and other media onto their personal page or in groups they’ve created. So, the more pageviews you generate, the more money you get, simple enough.

Users and organizations can also create premium groups and charge members to join and in this case, Group owners can earn 70%-100% of the revenue it generates and Harbork will take what’s left.

I do like the idea of allowing members to make a few dollars and it encourages them to create original content. However, there will be the concern of copyrighted materials floating around and they’ll need a filter them somehow before things pick up.

Aside from taking a cut from the premium groups, their other source of revenue is with Google ads and believe they have plans to roll out other forms of advertising as they move along.

Update: made a change to the title, my brain went dead for a second.

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