Google just launched prizes.org • Hacker News Board

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by ma2rten » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 10:16 AM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #14

This is a Google offering that only allows Facebook and Twitter sign-in. That's a bit odd; perhaps it exists for the purpose of getting people to opt their Facebook/Twitter info over to Google? More evidence for this theory: here's what Prizes asks for via Facebook Connect: …name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone… Prizes may access my dat…

What would Google gain from such practices? Why not just ask you your facebook/twitter username upfront? Propally only a small percentage of their user base is ever going to use prices.org anyway. I think the story here is that it is done by slide, which still acts like it's an independent company.

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by tcarnell » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 10:27 AM UTC

I dont believe this is from Google. Dishonest marketing from the real owner to post on HN that it is by Google...

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by silencio » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 10:28 AM UTC

nekitamo wrote: post #10

Sigh, I don't want to sign up via Facebook, and I don't want to sign up via Twitter. Goodbye otherwise interesting service.

You could always create a second, unused Twitter account for signups to services that don't need Twitter tweet access otherwise.

I have my main account, and then a second one to sign up for these types of websites, services that want to auth with Twitter that might send tweets I don't want (and then I sign up again with my main account if it checks out just fine), contests, and similar. I'm not against Twitter login or contest use, as I can see that being helpful to lots of people as basically a much more accessible OpenID-like single signon experience. I just don't want to spam my followers nor do I want to associate my main Twitter account with that :)

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by AlexC04 » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 11:28 AM UTC

Looks pretty legit to me.

     WHOIS information for prizes.org :
     [Querying whois.publicinterestregistry.net]

     [whois.publicinterestregistry.net]

     Domain ID:D104066777-LROR
     Domain Name:PRIZES.ORG
     Created On:07-Mar-2004 19:34:50 UTC
     Last Updated On:18-May-2011 17:43:19 UTC
     Expiration Date:07-Mar-2015 19:34:50 UTC
     Sponsoring Registrar:MarkMonitor Inc. (R37-LROR)
     Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
     Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
     Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
     Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
     Registrant ID:mmr-87489
     Registrant Name:DNS Admin
     Registrant Organization:Google Inc.
     Registrant Street1:1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
     Registrant City:Mountain View
     Registrant State/Province:CA
     Registrant Postal Code:94043
     Registrant Country:US
     Registrant Phone:+1.6502530000
     Registrant Phone Ext.:
     Registrant FAX:+1.6502530001
     Registrant FAX Ext.:
     Registrant Email:dns-admin@google.com

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

#65

Post by AlexCP » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 11:41 AM UTC

There is no way to filter or browse by category, useless.

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by ParadisoShlee_ » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 11:42 AM UTC

I want something like this for programmers.

Code my Startup - $5000 ;)

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

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Post by leeHS » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 12:17 PM UTC

How do I know this is google????? Anyone?

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

#68

Post by Gustomaximus » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 12:25 PM UTC

Is the rationale behind this prize / contestant format to make it easy to avoid tax obligation?

I'm just wondering why they set it up this way rather than stating it as a freelancer format.

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

#69

Post by rjstatic » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 12:40 PM UTC

Ummm, Google launched this? Says who?

Re: Google just launched prizes.org

#70

Post by metaprinter » Mon, Jul 04, 2011, 12:45 PM UTC

d4nt wrote: post #43

chrisrogers wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 7. I'm not yet convinced that there's a huge market for paid responses when the Stack Exchange network and Quora both offer large userbases who give their time to answer questions for free. Perhaps it is this model they are trying to defeat. If an answerer has the opportunity to earn real money for their time, it might be theorized that they would opt for that over the karma systems. It makes sense for a greater br…

This will be interesting to watch as an experiment in intrinsic vs extrinsic motivations. Personally, I think this will become a Mechanical Turk style wasteland full of people charging < $1/hr and churning out dross.

i had to google 'dross'