I love the way people connect online.

This afternoon I was posting links to awesome videos on Viddler and received a reply from @theoneinpink: @djsteen ironically i just found an awesome video on viddler too, not as nasty as yours: http://www.viddler.com/explore/Pwaou/videos/30 (tweet)

I checked to see if Sarah, @theoneinpink, had a Viddler account. Yup. Coolio. No videos though; un-coolio.

Anywho, the link on her Viddler is socialvibe.com. I checked it out.

SocialVibe is a very Flash intense website, but it doesn’t annoy me like OMGPOP (formerly iilwy) does. After playing around with the site for about an hour I discovered it’s basically a place were sponsors give you an ad (which I have an example of below) that you can put on your social network of choice (or your own website), and depending on the amount of clicks/impressions they’ll give money to the charity that you choose.

Basically, Sprint is giving me money and then I’m giving it to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Except the money never touches my hands or my bank account. I’m just the dude that chooses which sponsor gives to which charity. Rad!

SocialVibe has a social network built around it too; you can add friends, upload an avatar, etc. If you want to score points/money via Facebook, you have to add SocialVibe’s Facebook Application. I almost never add Facebook apps that give you points and stuff (’little green patch’ anyone?), but I figured why not?

I thought I’d raised over $19,000 for WWF in the time that I’d signed up, but that’s the total raised from everyone who supports that charity on SocialVibe. Ha.

Here’s an example of the ad I can plaster all over the web:

Feel free to add me as a friend on SocialVibe. Although, I’ll probably only visit the site once a month of less; it just feels like one of those self-sufficient sites that I won’t need to attend to much.

Now, dinner time!

Short URL: http://djsteen.com/wp/p/285

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