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Event: Financements innovants pour la création à l’ère numérique – Sunday June 20 2pm Paris – Kachingle presents at conference on new payment systems
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Tagged Kachingle Europe, micropayments, monetization, Yves Huin
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HS.fi: Sosiaalinen maksaminen, shoppailu (Social Payments)
One of Kachingle’s earliest European supporter, Tanja Aitamurto, has written a new article (in Finnish) discussing Kachingle in the context of social payments. She differentiates social payments from normal by explaining that social adds information about yourself as well as building your online identity to money changing hands:
One of the pioneers in the field of social micro-payments is Kachingle, an online payment system. Through Kachingle the reader can support, for example, journalism which he (or she) appreciates. Kachingle is based on payment as a social mission: Kachingle is not only a micro-payment system but also includes a social network. Publications which the reader supports appear in the reader’s Kachingle profile.
Interviews with Cynthia in Europe about Kachingle and the Social Payment marketspace
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.
Here are links to some of Cynthia’s interviews:
Austria
Germany
- MediaTalk in Munich in Journalist academy with Bern Osswald (he wrote http://www.pin-blog.eu/medienoekonomie/revolution-durch-lousy-pennies), PodCast
- Social Media Club Breakfast in Berlin “feels like home in Silicon Valley”: video
- SocialBar Berlin: Presentation
- E-Book-News (which sports a Kachingle Medallion on their site) Interview
- Golem.de (news site for IT professionals) Interview
- Mediengespräch “social payment” event in Munich: Markos Media podcast, Bernd Oswald’s coverage post
Cynthia will write her own blog post soon with lots more details about the trip and these and other meetings. She will also thank the wonderful hosts of these meetings and all the people that attended, or interviewed, or participated in some way! We got lots and lots of feedback about Kachingle that will help us continue to grow and improve our service.
While there, she also announced the lowering of the fees Kachingle collects for processing Pay-Outs to Site Owners (now only 15%, with Kachingle covering all PayPal costs), and the lowering of the threshold for receiving a Pay-Out to $3.35. Why that specifically odd amount? It’s the price of Cynthia’s favorite drink at Starbucks! We figure Site Owners social cents Pay-Out should at least buy them a grande iced latte.
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Institut für Kommunikation in sozialen Medien: “Micropayment in der deutschen Blogosphäre: Kachingle”
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 beispielsweise bei Der Spiegelfechter und im Kulturmanagement Blog geführt.
Passend zur re:publica 2010 hat kachingle eine Liste deutschsprachiger Webseiten veröffentlicht, die Kachingle benutzen, darunter diverse Blogs, Online-Magazine wie Carta und dem Anatolien-Magazin oder Regionalblogs wie kielpod.de. Kachingle scheint damit aus der Experimentierphase herausgetreten zu sein – es bleibt spannend zu sehen, wo Kachingle in Zukunft eingesetzt wird.
PS Mit Flatter bereitet sich ein Dienst ähnlichen Musters auf den Markteintritt vor.
e-book-news.de: “Crowdfunding mit doppeltem Mehrwert: E-Book-News startet Online-Buchhandlung”
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.
Kachingle bleibt natürlich eine gute Idee
Übrigens: Wenn Ihnen E-Book-News gefällt, können Sie uns natürlich auch weiterhin auf noch direkterem Weg unterstützen – durch eine Mitgliedschaft im Crowdfunding-Netzwerk Kachingle. Das Netzwerk setzt auf Transparenz: Wenn sie das Kachingle-Banner in unserer Sidebar anklicken, können Sie sehen, wer bereits mit dabei ist. In unserem Blogposting zum Thema Kachingle erfahren sie mehr zu dieser intelligenten Alternative zu Paywalls & Co.
Kachingle remains of course a good idea
By the way: If you like E-Book News, you can of course continue to support us on even more direct way – through membership in the Crowd Funding Network Kachingle. The network relies on transparency: If they click on the banner in our sidebar Kachingle, you can see who already is on board. In our blog post about Kachingle find out more about this smart alternative to Paywalls & Co.
oko-bloko: “oko-Kohle”
Oliver Koch, editor of the Münsterschen Zeitung newspaper in Germany, blogs about modern journalism and has adopted Kachingle as a way for readers to reward his work.
Mit Werbung auf oko-bloko habe ich mal 56 Cent oder so verdient. Das ist nicht weiter schlimm, denn so spannend finde ich die Inhalte hier nicht, dass ich damit irgendwas verdienen wollte. Also ist die nervige Werbung schon lange wieder weg.
Wer mich fürs Bloggen bezahlen möchte, kann das jetzt trotzdem tun. Ich jedenfalls habe mich im Zuge der Diskussion bei Jens Weinreich und nachdem ich diesen Beitrag bei Egghat gelesen habe zumindest dafür entschlossen, andere Blogger wenigstens symbolisch zu bezahlen.
Kachingle Opens European Office
We are pleased to announce the opening of Kachingle Europe, and the hiring of Yves Huin as its General Manager and Director.
Yves has very deep international business development experience for both US and European software, computer services, internet and communications companies. He also has expertise in business engineering and internet business models, international trade, and multi cultural project management. He earned his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Ecole Centrale Lyon, and his MBA from IAE Paris. He worked for many years for British Petroleum (BP) and has consulted for France Telecom, Oracle, NTT, EDF, Alstom, ABB, Siemens, Thomson, and the European Union. He has also served as a Foreign Trade Advisor for the French Government.
Yves has been a colleague and friend of Cynthia Typaldos (Kachingle’s founder) for more than 15 years. He was a business consultant for her first internet startup, GolfWeb, in 1995, and a teaching colleague of hers in the late ’90s at UC Berkeley Extension about business models. He served as a sounding board for Cynthia in 2004 when she first conceived of Kachingle.
Yves currently spends about two-thirds of his time in Paris, and one-third in the U.S. He speaks English, French and Romanian.
His role at Kachingle will be to represent Kachingle to the European press, attend relevant journalism and internet content business conferences in Europe, represent Kachingle in business development meetings with content providers/partners, and keep us informed of trends and opportunities in Europe.
He can be reached at Yves(dot)Huin at Kachingle(dot)com.