Hacker News Reader

It seems like a decent idea. I wonder how it will be integrated with RSS feeds though.

Also, I think the 20% cut is too high.

I wouldn't mind contributing to my favorite blogs this way.

Interesting regarding the concept of RSS feeds. I recently started using Google Reader heavily instead of the destination blogs. Maybe they'll have to add the code for it on every post...

I just finished up a post talking about these types of things, citing an article where Metafilter reported >$6K in donations. That's currently an exception, but who says that can't be repeated?

http://blog.twixa.com/2009/07/donations-20-will-they-save-jo...

full disclosure - I'm working on a complementary (not competing system)

Interestesing.

There is another company in the same space called PayyAttention.

Reminds me of TipJoy.

Yup, some people in the audience mentioned about tipjoy/tipjar. The concept looked pretty cool though .... I hope it works out for them.

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