eferraiuolo

Yeah. That's why we went with no fees at all for TipTheWeb.org!

Content attribution happens at the time the Tip is made, so it will be there even if the content is taken down after a user makes a Tip for it.

Sites like Hacker News could easily add rel="author" link elements to posts— since every post and comment has a permalink— and users could add their site URL to their profile. This would create a nice semantic link between the user’s content on HN to their own personal site. With these author links in place, if you come across a great comment on HN you could use TipTheWeb to tip it some small amount of money, and that tip would be assigned to the author, and not news.ycombinator.com.

Until now, TipTheWeb.org has supported two types of sites: 1) independent websites (no integration required), where Tips go to the site publisher, and 2) popular publishing platforms like YouTube, Flickr, GitHub, etc. with custom integrations that we did with these sites. With our new multi-author support TipTheWeb now works well with a thrid type of site: ones which have content produced by multiple authors or contributors.

We would love to see sites with user-contributed content add this meta data to their pages, what do you think?

Chrome has the Task Manager tool which helps you track down tabs which are being resource hogs (CPU and RAM). I was curious if something like this existed in Firefox 4 or there was an extension for a feature like this? (I looked but couldn't find anything promising)

Is your project up online somewhere?

With Readability you still have to "remember to click" the read now/later button, and you don't get to choose how much you want to support that article; you actually have to support it _before_ you even read it.

People are free to add money to their TipTheWeb account to use to fund their Tips at any time. Making a Tip isn't a financial transaction; this allows Tips to be as small as 5¢! And Tips can be made even if there isn't enough money to back it at the time it's made, and can be funded whenever the person wants to.

We’ve made everything about the service extremely flexible and low-key, and shouldn't cause any tense feelings. For example you can cancel Tips (up until they are paid out) if you made a mistake.

We’ve wanted to the decision to tip to be an active one, but low-barrier. Basically as close to bookmarking a link a possible, or like tweeting a link to share it. Automatic tipping would be difficult to balance things correctly. For example a funny YouTube video I may want to tip 25¢, but an open source project on GitHub I might want to tip $5.

All user accounts have Tip Streams that are a feed of the Tips that user has funded (you can make tips before you put money into your account). But, we have an option to make your account anonymous, removing all personal-identifiable information from your Tip Stream page.