Wayne D's Blog

A little while ago I wrote about my experience with Mahalo Answers which is trying to micro monetize knowledge by offering users tips for answering other users questions.

Now I've heard about another site that is trying to reward their users for providing site content. Docstoc.com is an online document storage and sharing site with a difference. They include Google Adsense ads on the document pages, if visitors click on the ads shown below documents you have uploaded to the site Docstoc splits the ad revenue with you 50/50. You get your money directly from Google so you need to have a Google Adsense account to participate but DocStoc will assist you in setting one up if you need help. Now there are ads in the search listings that don't share revenue with the document uploaders but Docstoc has made it clear what the terms of the program are. It's nice to see sites that rely on user generated content rewarding the content their users generate. I don't think anyone is going to get rich off sharing their spreadsheets but who knows? I hope we see more innovative thinking like Docstoc's in the social media space.

Docstoc supports the standard doc, xls, ppt, pps, pdf, rtf, txt, docx, xlsx and ppts file formats. Docstoc has also developed a flash based viewer that let you embed your documents in a website, I have included a sample for your perusal below. They don't only have invoice forms but they also have amusing documents like The Largest Food Items in the World, documents in the news such as Mel Gibson divorce papers and book previews including When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win by Carol Leifer.

The Largest Food Items Ever Made -