Flattr

URL = http://flattr.com/

Description

Peter Sunde:

“Users who join the site can use it to discover interesting articles, great music and useful software, like on the aforementioned social discovery sites. If they see something they like they can give it a thumbs up, which is nothing new either.

The innovative part is that users of Flattr set a monthly budget they are willing to donate each month to the content they like. This can be as low as $2, or whatever the user is willing to share. At the end of the month the money is shared between the creators of the content they liked, who are all Flattr users as well.

In other words, Flattr allows consumers to flatter content producers for a flat-rate fee, and offers a revenue stream to those who create and share content.

The idea behind Flattr is innovative, but for the service to be a success the user base has to be significant. If Sunde and friends succeed in that they have an ideal solution to pay off the people who share their work for free.” (http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/flattr-introduces-voluntary-social-micropayments/2010/02/13)

Comment

Jeremie Zimmerman:

"Flattr is *not* (in my view at least) micropayments.

When you click "flattr this" you had a micro-sum to a total... this total can then be transfered somewhere... So it's not about micro-payments, just micro-addition to some payment."