Ain’t that flattering?
If you haven’t heard about flattr yet, you have missed something important. Like all these other small things on the internet have changed the way we blog, socialize, make bookmarks, chat and send mails, so is flattr a way to change how we pay for content.
Like you have seen in pages like Digg or Facebook, you get to see a lot of these flattr buttons all over the web soon. Clicking the flattr on the bottom actually allows you to say “Hey I like this”. But there is a twist. You go to flattr, sign up, and then you send flattr, say 2 bucks to start with. Now for a month, you click on flattr buttons as often or not often as you like. Every button you click is recorded and at the end of the month, your 2 bucks are split evenly among all the people you liked. This way you can give the people who are creating content money, without revealing details from yourself and all the hassle with it. The transfer is done instant and by PayPal, so it works very fast and simple.
The less people you click, the more each single person gets. So if you are interested in it, I still have a spare invited code for flattr left over.