Comments on: IDEA #49 – Buy Music, Help Charities

By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:11:18 +0000

http://onecentmp3.com/ – cheap mp3 music. Over one million songs. No DRM!

By: drew

drew — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:21:43 +0000

During the past several months we’ve received almost no traffic, and a correspondingly small revenue of less than two dollars. However we have also not received any press or blog coverage. With some exposure, perhaps the idea would take off.

By: MattC

MattC — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:30:08 +0000

Drew,
The success of gcharity is probably a good barometer for how well Steve’s idea would work. So, care to share any numbers?

By: drew

drew — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:45:25 +0000

I attempted a similar idea with a Google search engine:

http://www.gcharity.com/

Simply set the gcharity page to your homepage, and use it to make all your typical Google searches. Google then pays a portion of the ad revenue to gCharity which then donates it to charities. This is the same method that FireFox uses to make millions of dollars from its Google search home page.

By: marc

marc — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:28:09 +0000

Best idea ever! I’m in!