Let’s go into how ownership recognition works on the new Flattr. When a URL is flattred we need to be able to look up who owns it to transfer money from a consumer to the respective content creator. This post will explain how that works and why we do it this way. Our goal is … Continue reading The story about the new Flattr – Making your content flattrable
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Discover great content in the flattrosphere – blogs, podcasts, musicians, video artists, the list is endless.
Thanks to our amazing community, and evangelism, we are now taking a big leap into the Spanish Comic Community. Helping creators get a little back from their hard work. Via Las Crónicas PSN we found a list of 14 comics that have signed up both to support each other, and to allow their readers to … Continue reading 14 Spanish Comics You Can Support
Ever made a deep sigh when it comes to the possibility, or lack there of, of supporting the artists you want to listen to? Some are making it a lot easier for you, while others still try to lock their material behind as many paywalls as possible. In the past year it has been possible … Continue reading Support artists while you listen to them!
Before I start this post I would just like to officially say that Flattr has a really outstanding community of developers that we are so happy to work with. This list includes the awesome folks behind the Flattr IOS Manager App, Superfav, Flattrstar, Youtify, Fundd, and many more. As if it couldn't get anymore awesome here comes … Continue reading Introducing Fleddit – Flattr, Reddit mashup!
At Flattr we are on a mission to get people to support creators monetarily based on voluntary micro payments after a piece of content is consumed. The reasons why we are trying to push this model are many. One of the strongest ones is that it's aligned with the way in which we consume media … Continue reading “How do we let people pay for music”
This guest post is written by the Belgian Pirate Party member, Lionel Dricot. He was 14 votes away of becoming the first Pirate elected in Belgium. He blogs on www.ploum.net and is a Flattr advocate since 2010. Dear artists, A year ago, in order to support the blackout against SOPA, I wrote a blog post explaining why I … Continue reading Guest post: Open letter to pirated artists
2012 has been a year of heavy developments at Flattr. Among some things we introduced connections to make it easier to become flattrable, announced a revenue sharing program for partner sites and integrated with the music streaming service Grooveshark. On behalf of everybody at Flattr I wish you a Happy New Year! JANUARY Developer challenge … Continue reading 2012 in review, it’s been a good year
We love music. But we know that it's tricky to directly support artists on the internet. As a service trying to empower creators we don't like standing to the side just watching. So we haven't! For a long time we have tried to crack how we can help artists to get money for the great … Continue reading Flattring artists with Grooveshark
We have for a long time been blessed with a vibrant developer community. Until now the offspring of the developers and Flattr has been totally invisible. There have not been any place to find applications built for Flattr. Now there is. Say "Hello" to our new App Gallery! In the gallery you can find mobile … Continue reading Introducing Flattr App Gallery
This is a guest post by podcaster Toby Baier who makes the "Fall asleep Podcast" (Einschlafen Podcast). It tries to be so boring it helps you fall asleep. On October 18th, the Einschlafen Podcasts has its 2nd birthday. To celebrate this, I don't want presents myself, but I rather want my listeners to help me … Continue reading Flattr bombs as birthday celebration