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I recently discovered a new site, Vimu.com, which enables users to share webpages they have found (news, articles, videos, pictures) with other registered users and subscribers. Is this just another link directory disguised as a social news sharing network? A google search offered little information other that Vimu is a new website owned by On Topic Media who also owns Orble.com (a community of bloggers). Vimu is still in beta testing according to Orble News in July. From the looks of the site, it’s a place to aggregate web content sources in order to generate advertising revenue. Vimu shares a certain percentage of the advertising revenue earned from any channel or link page, paying users through an AdSense account. This practice is not at all new. Squidoo.com pays lens makers a percentage of dollars generated through Amazon.com sales and there are countless blogging communities that are designed to generate advertising dollars by encouraging bloggers to promote their blogs for profit. The practice is just sort of shady.
*We interrupt this blog post to bring you a rant
I sort of despise those folks lurking around in social networking sites making “friends” in order to make money from their blogs via advertising revenue or number of clicks. There’s certain desperation to their manner. (You know of whom I speak.) While I may be bordering on hypocrisy here, I get paid to blog and bolster traffic to PromotionalMagazine.com and the site does earn money through AdSense ads, I am still irked. Moreover, I find it suspect that a site like Vimu.com pays people to aggregate content that they have not authored. Simply put, anyone can create a Vimu channel of anyone’s blog and generate money from their content. Um, “Creepy is on the phone, calling for Creepy.” I’m even tempted to write grody to the max! And I did. WTH?!
I don’t mean to come off as naïve to the world of making money online; I’m all for people profiting from content but I think the profits should come from their own, unique content. In a recent post titled "Social Media Free For All Pages," Aaron Wall of SEObook asks the question, “… is social media becoming a vast wasteland?” and moreover he asks,
Wall strikes up an interesting conversation around the manner in which content is being published. It’s logical that as long as people are being rewarded financially for publishing content they have not authored themselves, the issue is not soon to disappear. It’s an interesting time we live in and a time when the content all over the webosphere is largely left without anyone to moderate originality, source, copyright etc…. For now, the jurisdiction is left in the eyes of any given community. And I hope that the truth, in any given niche, will rise to the top.
What are your thoughts?
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