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We've added payment options to our experimental Surfshare service for bloggers and news sites.
Tipping: If you visit a page you really enjoy, you can tip the blogger a small amount e.g. 25 cents to $5.00. Your tips will be aggregated on a regular billing statement. In fact, if you like this post, click the Leave a tip link in the right sidebar below Your Site Activity.
Larger contributions and Surfshare micropayments:If you visit a Surfshare-enabled site regularly enough, you'll occasionally be reminded to support the site. View the popup shown below. Or, you can trigger the popup by visiting a number of pages on this site - or just click this link, or here or here.
There are essentially three options:
1) You can authorize the site to be included in your Surfshare bill. Currently, one cent will be added to your bill for each story you read (unique stories, not visits).
2) You can choose to make a larger contribution to the site e.g. $5 - $100.
Both of these kinds of payments will be aggregated in the same monthly statement mentioned above.
3) You can choose to keep reading for free ... and we'll remind me you again at a later date.
Our goal is to give the user as much control over the process as possible. Users can cancel tips, donations and micropayments any time before paying their first bill. We hope to add more account and privacy options soon.
You can add Surfshare to your blog or news site here. There is no cost to use the service. Learn more about SurfShare from here.
Disclaimers: Surfshare is an experimental service, still in alpha. We do not intend to collect any revenue from this service until 2010. Readers will have a chance to reset their balances up until we commence billing.
