Ulrike Lange interviewed Cynthia as part of our German language launch and was interested in four main topics (posted in German and English, the German version has also been posted at Carta). Here are excerpts of Cynthia’s responses:
Peter Schink told his readers that he added Kachingle to Blog Age for two reasons: to see who among his readers is willing to pay to support his writing and because Peter likes the Kachingle idea. The latter enough that he signed up as a Kachingler too and called out German bloggers Netzpolitik, Basicthinking, Spreeblick,Continue Reading
Stephan Lamprecht, who writes about self-management, social software and networking from Germany, has joined the Kachingle network and told his readers that the idea behind our service convinced him right away.
Hyperlocal German site Würzblog has come aboard with Kachingle and site owner Ralf Thees has been interviewed about his choice in vorwaerts.de. Thees expects reader financial support for a site like his with 400 regular readers to be modest but useful and in any case an interesting experiment to add to his community.
Vorwaerts.de, the newspapers of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, has added our Medallion to their website and instantly become the largest site in the Kachingle content network. Yesterday the paper posted an article explaining their reason for joining with us–Kachingle is the first usable, reader-oriented micropayment system available. They even promise to publish theContinue Reading
Ulrike Lange of MedialDigital gave a well thought out keynote Thursday at the Cologne content web forum, discussing in depth the crossroads she sees for building value (e.g., revenue) around original content. In it she covers Kachingle (Lange’s site sports the Kachingle Medallion), the shortsightedness of many in the traditional media who think paywalls willContinue Reading
Karsten Wenzlaff wrote about Kachingle use in Germany: Das Ziel Crowdfunding für gute Internet-Inhalte möchte der Online-Dienst Kachingle ermöglichen. Vergleichbar ist der Ansatz mit einer freiwilligen GEZ-Zahlung, aber in diesem Fall bestimmt der Nutzer selbst, welche Inhalte Anteile erhalten und wie viel er zahlen möchte. Umfassende Diskussion über den Dienst wurde in deutschen Blogs beispielsweiseContinue Reading
Nice writeup of Kachingle by German media analysts Famos Mediens: Crowdfunding mit Kachingle.
German language book site e-book-news.de has posted an article about their new online book store and the importance of continuing Kachingler support to fund their efforts.
this magazine about the Anatolian region of Turkey is one of a burgeoning community of German language sites emerging on Kachingle.
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