The Content Reference Forum, which announced its formal launch yesterday, has gained a mixed reception, as perhaps expected…it seems like a decent idea in theory, but they could have underplayed the cheesy MLM overtones…rewards for users sending out more content to users? Jeez…
Of cours, the story I linked to is heavily biased, so make your own judgements either way…
Fool.com: CRF “harbors pretensions to become the creators of an entirely new digital-media world — as evidenced by the not-so-subtle snippet from Michelangelo’s Sistine Creation of Adam at the top of its Web page. But version 1.0 looks DOA to me. The reward system seems like a thinly camouflaged effort to enlist hyperactive teens to do online marketing. I doubt it will work. Do they really think that a generation of file-swappers raised on free goods will suddenly be satisfied by high-tech teasers? (And can you imagine the opportunities for Spam?)”
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