Category Archives: Crowdfunding

By Anika, our Cool Nerd Queen Kachingler – Social Media Marketing Manager, located in Bremen, Germany We proudly present our  Happy Kachingler for November! Name: Bob Sprague Twitter: @yourarlington Homepage: http://www.yourarlington.com Bob is a veteran journalist who loves basketball, Bach and connecting with Arlington, Mass., the town near Boston where he has lived since 1989.Continue Reading

Every week, Kachingle promotes a different category of sites. Recently, we had “web comic” week, because most of our team members are reading several comics on a regular basis, as are many of our users.  As we started to promote this category, we got plenty of feedback both from users who recommended comic sites, asContinue Reading

Here’s a short presentation I put together to highlight the value of Kachingle over and above the social payments revenue generation. How Kachingle Helps with Marketing View more presentations from Kachingle.

Recently the German community of the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia started a discussion about implementing a social payment service like Kachingle. Some people argue whether it should be placed on articles or on user sites and if the revenue should flow to authors or to the Wikimedia foundation. In a running survey Wikipedia contributors are votingContinue Reading

Kachingle founder Cynthia Typaldos has been traveling in Germany and Austria this week, and has been interviewed by several blogger and journalists while meeting with Site Owners and others in what has become a booming market for the concept of using social cents to support your favorite content.

The Center for Public Integrity produces original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern in the US and around the world and has adopted Kachingle as a tool to support their efforts.

Center for Investigative Reporting is the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization, producing multimedia reporting that has impact and is relevant to people’s lives and an early Kachingle participant.

We’ve been accumulating payments now for several months, but today we actually paid real money to our first sites! There is a threshold of $50 for a Pay-Out to occur — this is because PayPal imposes a 2% fee ($1) on each masspay transaction going out. And we had to pay about 9% for theContinue Reading

Digital Money Forum March 10/11, 2010 London, UK Yves Huin, our Director Kachingle Europe, will present at The Digital Money Forum. This event, now in its thirteenth year, combines discussion and debate about the future of retail electronic payments. If you would like to meet with Yves while he is in London, please contact himContinue Reading

I’m testing out various formats for blog posts and tweets. This post/tweet is factual but boring so I won’t be doing it again. Cynthia the Chief Kachingler