Making Money Off Digg
Somewhere Jason Calacanis is having a big laugh. He found himself in middle of a firestorm when he decided to pay users to submit stories on the New Netscape.com. Digg community did not like it, but someone thought it was a good idea. This site matches users and submitters. Users get $0.50 every 5 stories they digg. Submitters pay $20 + $1 per digg. That is playing the spread!
October 2nd, 2006 at 6:27 pm ★ reply
Their spartan, “looks like we just whipped this up in 10 minutes”, doesn’t inspire much confidence that they are even ‘legit’.
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:13 pm ★ reply
[...] As if my admission that I don’t use social bookmarking sites wasn’t enough. Along comes Om with a site where you can pay to have your digg submission dugg for $1 a digg and that pays diggers to digg those sites for $0.50/5 diggs. [...]
October 4th, 2006 at 7:02 pm ★ reply
Whacky concept though !!! Wondering if any legal action can be taken against such a site.
By the way, Om, checkout http://www.taajakhabar.com
-Pranav.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:30 pm ★ reply
[...] Om posts on User/Submitter, a site that seems to match suers and submitters and toss in some change. [...]