Kluster Becomes A News Site
Kluster switched directions today and launched Knewsroom.
“our product is not nearly as cool as our process, lets ditch the product and make the processes our business” founder Ben Kaufman said in a video he posted to YouTube. “Seven weeks in and a million dollars down the drain, we know what works,”
Kluster launched 6 weeks ago at TED to tones of fanfare as community members crowdsourced a game in 72 hours. Its interesting to see such a huge change in only 6 weeks. The cluster platform can be used by different companies, where it can be used for to make crowdsource amongst employees, partners, and customers. Apparently for several company’s have already partnered with Kluster and will be announcements in coming months.
Knewsroom, is a daily “paper” users submit new topics and stories each day and then members invest in them using a currency called “watts”. Once the “Paper is published” members get paid out based on their investments, users actually get a % of advertising revenue. If an original story you create makes it to the fount page you get paid $150. Klusters also have a new partnership with Master Card which allows members to spend their hard earn cash thought their new debit card. 
you have 16 hours left to invest and create content for this new project.
May 14th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.
Allen Taylor