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
On her recent trip to Germany and Austria, Cynthia met with a bright student called Christiane Hawranek for an interview, which has been posted to Einloggen13. In it she highlights: Bunny, Starbucks coffee cup and Cynthia’s “big blue suitcase” a/k/a “the blue monster.”
During her recent visit to Austria and Germany our founder and President Cynthia Typaldos sat down for an interview with the ORF, the biggest public television and radio company in Austria to talk about Kachingle’s service and growing popularity in the Austrian and German online community. OE1@ORF Interview with Cynthia
picturetom is the fine art photography website from journalist and professional photographer Thomas Schmidt. After working in the industry for major publications and independent houses he is using Kachingle as a new support channel (German version) for his art.
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.
Stefan Mey, a keen observer of the European media scene, is tracking Kachingle–last month he published a ranking of German language sites sporting the Kachingle Medallion. Today he released Deutsche Kachingle-Charts Vol. 2, the second edition of the rankings (Carta remains at the top and has overtaken SteveOuting.com on the overall list) and has also postedContinue Reading
Wir freuen uns über den großen Zuspruch, den wir aus dem deutsch-sprachigen Raum erhalten. Nachdem wir in diesem Monat bereits das Medaillon in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht haben, werde ich nun selbst nach Österreich und Deutschland reisen. Es würde mich freuen, Kachingle-Nutzer persönlich kennenzulernen um mehr über Eure Erfahrungen, Wünsche und Bedürfnisse zu erfahren.
Max Kossatz, CEO of Austrian market research firm Domsich, Kossatz & Steinberger Beratungs OEG, writes on his blog Wissen belastet that he’s been thinking on micropayments for 15 years now and is excited to see services such as Kachingle finally making a useful start on executing them. He also got Cynthia excited by being theContinue Reading
Die Presse is one of the major daily newspapers in Austria and this article covers the recent German launch of our service. Two of our early adopters, Bill Mitchell (Poynter Entrepreneurs) and David Röthler(http://politik.netzkompetenz.at/), are quoted. Mitchell explains that neither paywalls nor advertising will provide sufficient revenue for major media companies but crowdfunding (a la Kachingle) justContinue Reading
“We should abandon the idea that no one is willing to pay in the network. That’s not true. It depends on what and how much.” That’s the conclusion of a new post by Pirate Party member Uwe Hauck on his blog Living the future, in which he also cites the recent success of the nameContinue Reading
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