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Chicago Reader: “Pay for News, Then Brag About It”

Michael Miner has published an analysis of Kachingle in the weekly Chicago Reader, Pay for News, Then Brag About It, summarized in his subtitle: “Kachingle, a smart combo of micropayments and social networking, has launched.”

Red Ferret: “Kachingle – micropayment crowdfunding for digital stuff”

Red Ferret, a 10 year old ‘eclectic tech blog, covering gadgets, software, cool sites and tech trivia in a fun and offbeat way,’ has taken a look at Kachingle and like what they see. Nigel Powell, the Editor-in-Chief, wrote about us today:

The biggest challenge of the “news people”

In pre-Internet days, people used to buy newspapers either as their principal source of information or to complement TV sources with analysis and some regional/local news. Given the choice, one would buy the newspaper that best matched one’s political and cultural sensibility. Life was simple!

Micropayments for Digital Goods in a Social World

Anything that can be digitized will be napsterized. Kachingle is a business model for the inevitable future of “free”.