Show HN: Color.io == an intuitive social marketing / barter platform
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I think there is also user experience to factor in here. When I visit a bands page, take blur for a hypothetical example, I've already decided I like the band. When offered something for free to like them I've already make a concious decision to support them.
For your idea to be successful it will need to be embedded into sites where people already have engagement.
As a stand alone page it just won't work, unless you want to allow it to be branded per page, but that carries too much overhead.
Go for contracts with EMI or Time Warner and get your 'like > reward' product on hundreds of sites
In comparison to Facebook pages, Color links are more portable. You can easily include it in a status update also, rather than landing pages (which necessarily include the logic to check for Likes). This is especially relevant if publishers switch to the Timeline, which makes it much harder to do "Like gating". See http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/death-of-the-facebook-defau...
Ie. Person A uses Color to "store" content. Person B accesses content by doing X. Person B receives content. Person A receives a Like/FB Post/Tweet. (or something like that?)
My belief is that things like books, music, and other content take time to make and users fully understand that. What Color does, however, is help consumers realize they can reward creators without necessarily spending money, but instead with publicity, arguably even more valuable for new artists/stores/websites.
Your service would need to curate the content and gain enough trust for people already burned to accept the risk.
PS. The styling of the 'Free Download/powered by Color' button is broken on my iPad (The 'Free Download' text is below the actual button).
Have you considered adding one of those?