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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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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.
Boston Sports Media Watch: “Support BSMW Through Micropayments with Kachingle”
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 important to make the time I put in here worth it to me, (this is after all, something I do on the side, and not my main job) and after looking at different funding sources I came across Kachingle. Kachingle is an innovative social micropayment service that enables readers to easily make ongoing, voluntary micropayments to sites like this one.
My eventual hope is to trim down the number of ads that you’re seeing on the site. This year, income for BSMW is about half of what it was at this time last year, despite the same amount or more ads. I don’t really like looking at them, and would like to bring a cleaner, faster BSMW to you.
Carta analyzes Kachingle and implements Medallion
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 economy of the digital public sphere. Carta has around 20 to 30 regular and passionate contributors. Grimme Online Award 2009.”
Carta previously mentioned Kachingle in two earlier articles — below are listed all three. The first one is the detailed analysis along with numerous comments (some in German, some in English)
Google translate does a reasonable job with German –> English so non-German speakers can read these articles by going to Google Translate and entering the URL of the article [This has been included after the German title.]. Note that if any English appears in the original German article it gets a bit weird in the translation — in some cases the opposite of what was written is what the translation shows. So read the German in the translated version but read the English directly. [Yeah, everything is complicated!]
Die Zukunft von Paid Content: Hier wäre ein Ansatz.
Google translation to English: The future of paid content: This would be an approach. The Crowd-Funding Application “Kachingle” enters the beta phase. Carta is the first partner site in Germany.
17.12.2009 | Robin Meyer-Lucht | 26 Kommentar(e)
Online-Journalismus: Raus aus der Gratisfalle
03.12.2009 | Stefan Kooths | 33 Kommentar(e)
Frage: Kachingle – der Ausweg?
Google translation to English: Question: Kachingle – the way out? Steve Outing has written one very remarkable article. He holds Kachingle for a solution to the funding crisis of online journalism. A closer look, the system is worth: Users pay a monthly fee that is passed on to the real use of them offers.
17.02.2009 | Redaktion CARTA | 16 Kommentar(e)
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Tagged crowdfunding, German, kachingle, micropayments, non-profits
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Update on Kachingle Beta Program
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 is “Don’t Make Me Think!” by Steve Krug) . We are now on our second Beta update (rev 1.02) and have made numerous improvements, primarily in the Medallion and in the flow of some sections of the sign-up process.
The Medallion (which resides on the sites – you can see ours at the top left of our blog) now has four clearly identifiable states:
- gray (user is not a Kachingler or has not set the Medallions to the “Remember Me” state – e.g. Medallions not cookie-enabled)
- purple (user is a Kachingler, Medallions in “Remember Me” state, but user has not chosen to kachingle that particular site
- green (user is a Kachingler, Medallions in “Remember Me” state, user has chosen to kachingle that particular site [nirvana for the Site Owner]
- red (user is a Kachingler, Medallions in “Remember Me” state, but user PayPal account not enabled (therefore user unable to kachingle their sites)
We also added smileys to each of the states. I believe they quickly convey the nature of the state — e.g. the gray has the ? smiley, the purple has the straight mouth smiley, the green has the happy smiley and the red has the ! smiley. However, the smileys are pretty small in the actual Medallion so we are still experimenting.
Kachingle Medallion Smileys
Check out the Medallion and tell us what you think!
We also have some exciting new sites as part of the Beta program. Our first German site is Carta.info, our first Austrian site is politik.netzkompetenz.at, our first musician sites are Aeos Records and Symetrk.com, our first journalist site is SteveOuting.com, and of course our first canine site is The Daily Bunny by our own Bunny the K9 Kachingler.
We will be featuring other Beta Sites in further posts so stayed tuned!
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Tagged crowdfunding, kachingle, micropayments
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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”.
Here’s the presentation on Slideshare…there’s also a large (70MB!) version with a narrative by me (Cynthia, the Chief Kachingler).
Micropayments for Digital Goods in a Social World
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Kachingle Introduction
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.
Before the internet, publishers set the price of books, artists and photographers set the price of their work, newspapers set the price of their subscriptions, services such as software tools set the price of their products. Some content has traditionally been free but paid for through advertising – such as broadcast TV. But nearly all content and service pricing has been one or a combination of fixed price, subscription price, or free but subsidized through advertising.
After the internet, these business models have persisted but with some difficulty as the physical manifestation of content has in most cases disappeared. Electronic versions are trivial and essentially cost free to create, publish, and distribute. Additionally, the quantity of content and services has grown exponentially.
Because there is so much content and so many services available, subscription fees are difficult to implement as consumers are overwhelmed by the choices, the aggregate cost, and the inability to connect price with value delivered. Fixed price and subscription price business models have suffered more than advertising, partly because they require barriers to access, which removes them from the powerful internet-based viral mechanisms such as links, widgets, and social sharing. But even advertising has its limitations online as it can be intrusive, irrelevant, or insufficient to support costs.
What does Kachingle do?
Kachingle provides online content and service providers with a simple “hands-free” user-centric monetization service fueled by existing social networking services.