Comments on: TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors

By: ProjectVRM Blog » Appreciating TipJoy

ProjectVRM Blog » Appreciating TipJoy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:24:35 +0000

[...] back, and talked often in ProjectVRM conversations about how EmanciPay might use the excellent TipJoy API, among other possibilities. The key paragraph from their final blog post: When we evaluate why [...]

By: Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool - BlogAngle

Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool - BlogAngle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:00:51 +0000

[...] as part of the Y Combinator class of Spring 2008 and while it saw steady improvements, like a new API in May 2008, it was seeing slow uptake. Later developments included an API that allowed users to [...]

By: Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool

Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:52:45 +0000

By: links for 2008-05-29 « Breyten’s Dev Blog

links for 2008-05-29 « Breyten’s Dev Blog — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:30:36 +0000

[...] TipJoy?s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors (tags: company & product profiles web 2.0 news ideas tipjoy) [...]

By: Alper

Alper — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:07:05 +0000

@Steve Not really. Think about why tipping works in real life. It does so because there is a social norm and pressure to do so and not doing so is visible both to your party as to your service provider.

Translating that dynamic online is admittedly difficult but that is what we’re trying to do. So allow people to publish what they have tipped and who has tipped them etc. This way we try to create the conditions for a social dynamic to spring up around the phenomenon.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:55:50 +0000

Alper, in comment #32 you say: “This way tipping becomes a more social action as it should be.” Another example of a Web 2.0 “new” idea that’s really an old idea like Amazon’s & PayPal’s with an added “social’ tag? Take an old idea that didn’t work, say “It’s the Myspace/Facebook of (fill in blank)”.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:36:05 +0000

When you can predict in public 4-6 weeks prior a Google stock price falling by almost half, and the actual offer value for Yahoo 4-6 weeks before a whiff of it even reaches the public then come and talk to me. To top it off, web you can determine how to make Yahoo fail then come talk to me.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:34:02 +0000

And by the way I know that, but obviously you never read most of my post on tech stocks. That makes me feel much better, knowing that you are not in my league.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:03 +0000

yes it is a blatant misuse. But it is not content but the site and name of the site that will be for release with certain features, sections, and functionality.

A blog is no different than a website.

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:25:33 +0000

Technology is released in “beta”, not blogs. Sorry, but that is pathetic. One does not “release” blog content, one simply blogs. No beta. Total misuse of the term, but typical.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:10:00 +0000

yeah, like not released for prime time. simple enough yes.

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:06:59 +0000

“my blog (in BETA” lolololol

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:05:46 +0000

What is YCombinator?

#36. Re the $0.10, we all know that high volume on anything will amount to be huge later. But for low traffic websites like my blog (in BETA) and even then the largest online paper here has way less that 70K uniques, thus 10 cents is small for low traffic sites.

Most likely very few readers would tip a large newspaper site anyway, after they know the paper charges for the hard copy. But you are absolutely right on what you said.

By: FatB

FatB — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:01:30 +0000

Another issue with TipJoy is how many people are actually pushing it? I’ve had it up for a while but it’s just another bit of javajunk floating in between posts. I just put up an actual request for donations:

http://fatbasta...ing-for-change/

We’ll see how that works out. It seems like a good idea, all we have to do is convince readers. Or more to the point they’ll let us know if they agree.

And as for 10 cents being nothing, if every reader gave 10 cents you would be getting $10.00 per thousand unique viewers, as far as I know that would be a good CPM rate.

And Alper, Tipit.to looks interesting. After I play around with TipJoy I’ll check it out.

By: DaveS

DaveS — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:20:23 +0000

I find it interesting that all the positive comments are coming from the YCombinator people. I think they’re all delusional.

By: Bruce Lewis

Bruce Lewis — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:46:26 +0000

@Kristoffer Lawson, you may be on to something re. artists and musicians. Ijigg is getting a lot of tipjoy for music, and the first real tipjoy on OurDoings is a theatre company:

http://ourdoing...verlandtheatre/

They have good family-friendly shows coming this weekend north of Boston.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:37:00 +0000

#32. Exactly. So the feel is almost interactive and almost like a game. Crap dudes could end up tipping big bucks to win over a chick on my Hot Babes page.

I see this with huge potential. The very idea of playing with tips in a social network seems cool. Spin off or no spin off the thing if handled correctly will rock.

By: Alper

Alper — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:30:54 +0000

@Steve A major difference with a site like Tipit.to is that your donations do not disappear into a black hole but are published (if you choose not to stay anonymous) both on your page and on the tipjar pages. This way tipping becomes a more social action as it should be.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:09:06 +0000

Amazon has had their Honor System online since around 1999. Same idea, copy and paste an button on to your site. Minimum donation is $1.00 http://zme.amazon.com

Pay Pal did the same thing around ‘99 or 2000. https://www.pay...e-intro-outside

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:36:55 +0000

FYI– some additional general discussion from our blog on the TipJoy integration (it didn’t Trackback properly, I guess):

http://blog.bug...de-with-tipjoy/

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:20:36 +0000

i think the bigger prize is just proving that micropayments are feasible economically, and build the infrastructure. once that’s in place, we can talk about subscriptions, etc.

some of my favorite content – i would have gladly paid for, and still would, if they’d only bring it back.

http://politicaltheory.info/

there are lots of things that i’d pay a little bit for – maybe even more than a little bit.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:45:57 +0000

Charity sounds good. But maybe not for the girls who own their photos. Still a good concept none the less.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:44:52 +0000

Charity? Gift Card? Interesting.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:40:13 +0000

Question: Will the Tip Joy button appear on a Wordpress blog? I have had issues posting HTML codes in my blog. Testing PayPal and had to use another web page for the buttons to appear. I guess the same thing will happen with this. Takes away from a seamless experience though. Anyone know how to get around this wordpress HTML (button) issue let me know.

By: Senior Editor

Senior Editor — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:36:49 +0000

I like this. I am going to work with it. i think all my models will be quite happy about this feature. Except me of course. Where is my cut? Would that make into a pimp? I am not for pimping. So I guess I do not want or need a cut. But dam what if it took off through the roof? Oh well.