I am a Ximmy member. My user name at Ximmy is Mark. This blog is a journal of my experience with Ximmy.
For those who don't know a thing about Ximmy, well, it is basically a social review and voting site similar to Digg, but, unlike Digg and the rest of the social review and voting sites on the Internet, Ximmy promises to compensate users for several activities like sharing content and posting comments on submissions of news, video, pictures, and web sites. Certain activities are given specific points and a sliding scale translates these points into real money. 1,000 points, for example, translates into $10.
I came to know about Ximmy through a Techcrunch article entitled Ximmy: A Digg Clone That Offers Users Money to Participate. The concept, as the article points out, is not really new. However, Ximmy seems to be the first to offer it to the general public. So I followed the link and browsed the entire site. I noticed that it was still in Beta, hence very new, with a lot of bugs and problems of all sort. In general, however, it looked like a good site. The Techcrunch article really was a good hook for new sites.
I got curious so I joined last January 26, 2008. I though to myself, that since I've already been posting reviews and voting for some of the web sites I find online, which are interesting to me, at several social review and voting sites, I might as well make some cash while doing it.
With that in my mind, I posted like crazy after joining and in a weeks time I managed to get to the top rank and I am now eligible to redeem my rewards. However, after analyzing the sliding scale of points and dollar equivalents, I decided to save my points until I reach the peak of the scale, which is 20,000 points = $300.
I am enjoying the experience... so far. I made friends with several members already. Hope it stays that way.
For those who don't know a thing about Ximmy, well, it is basically a social review and voting site similar to Digg, but, unlike Digg and the rest of the social review and voting sites on the Internet, Ximmy promises to compensate users for several activities like sharing content and posting comments on submissions of news, video, pictures, and web sites. Certain activities are given specific points and a sliding scale translates these points into real money. 1,000 points, for example, translates into $10.
I came to know about Ximmy through a Techcrunch article entitled Ximmy: A Digg Clone That Offers Users Money to Participate. The concept, as the article points out, is not really new. However, Ximmy seems to be the first to offer it to the general public. So I followed the link and browsed the entire site. I noticed that it was still in Beta, hence very new, with a lot of bugs and problems of all sort. In general, however, it looked like a good site. The Techcrunch article really was a good hook for new sites.
I got curious so I joined last January 26, 2008. I though to myself, that since I've already been posting reviews and voting for some of the web sites I find online, which are interesting to me, at several social review and voting sites, I might as well make some cash while doing it.
With that in my mind, I posted like crazy after joining and in a weeks time I managed to get to the top rank and I am now eligible to redeem my rewards. However, after analyzing the sliding scale of points and dollar equivalents, I decided to save my points until I reach the peak of the scale, which is 20,000 points = $300.
I am enjoying the experience... so far. I made friends with several members already. Hope it stays that way.
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