Let’s say you’ve never heard of Kachingle and you find out that there’s an online service that allows you to make online donations to bloggers or websites as a reward for the good job they do every day. It lets you pay whoever you want with just a few clicks. You do have to createContinue Reading
Starting Oct 1, 2011, we now pay out the earnings to Kachingle-enabled sites starting at 1¢. Why? Well, one reason is because we can. And we couldn’t think of a good reason to hold the money since our Kachinglers have made these voluntary contributions to the sites, not to us. We believe that no matterContinue Reading
Now that we have implemented Kachingle Anything! so that anyone can request just about any site/blog/web app or user on a specific platform (e.g. YouTube) to be added to Kachingle, we have had some surprises – several of these requests are for content or services that are behind a paywall. I’ll discuss two examples andContinue Reading
Yves Huin, Kachingle GM Europe, présentera Kachingle la solution de paiement volontaire qui permet aux internautes de soutenir financièrement les blogueurs et sites de contenu en ligne qu’ils apprécient le plus. D’une grande simplicité d’utilisation, Kachingle a déjà été adopté par plusieurs centaines de sites, en particulier en Allemagne et en Autriche.
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:
Bruce Allen, writer of Boston Sports Media Watch, says Kachingle is an innovative, simple, user-centric alternative to “cumbersome subscriptions, paywalls, and pay-per-article plans that some media outlets are considering.” Here at Boston Sports Media Watch, I want to produce quality content that continues to be valuable for you. To do this, continued funding is importantContinue Reading
Carta.info recently wrote a detailed analysis of Kachingle and also installed the Kachingle Medallion on their site. Their description of Carta written on the Kachingle site is: “Carta is a German language online-publication on politics, economics and the digital Public. It is based in Berlin. We are interested, among other things, in the political economyContinue Reading
Kachingle launched our friends and family and colleagues Beta site last month. It’s going great thanks to our early adopters and our slew of usability testers. Our main focus over the last 30 days has been to study and then improve the usability of our service, both for Kachinglers and Site Owners (our bible isContinue Reading
Anything that can be digitized will be napsterized. Kachingle is a business model for the inevitable future of “free”.
What problem does Kachingle solve? Many online content and service creators, from individuals to startups to giant media corporations, are unable to sustain their businesses based on advertising revenue alone. Kachingle implements a new business model for these sites that can coexist with, complement, or in some cases, replace advertising.
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