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Getting paid to play… social networking for cash…

October 23rd, 2007 · Comments

A new social network site is offering to pay users for taking part. Yuwie aims to reward users for activity and referring more friends to the network, taking inspiration from old-style pyramid schemes.
You get paid for changing your profile, posting content, and when users look at your profile and content. And you get a [...]

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Tags: business · user generated content

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk gives a home to the desperate and the spammers

September 6th, 2007 · Comments

I’d heard about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk before, but never really had a chance to play. It’s a system to allow you to earn cash for doing jobs computers can’t do for companies and individuals.
But don’t start hoping you could earn much cash from your desktop. The average pay for work ranges from $0.01 to under [...]

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Tags: Blogging