This is a fake Yahoo Answers page, designed to demonstrate the iCents payment platform technology.
We will demonstrate how Yahoo Answers users could pay and earn money on Yahoo using iCents.
This is just one example of how iCents technology can be used on Yahoo. iCents is a very flexible Ajax payment platform, so there are several different ways to use it. This demo is just one of dozens of possibilities.
Please click the "Next" button below.
We are not connected or affiliated with Yahoo. This demo page uses copyrighted material under the fair use doctrine. If you are here by mistake, please find the real web page here.
Yahoo Answers allows users to ask and answer questions, and contains a great variety of questions, ranging from just-for-fun to serious topics.
Users who ask questions don't pay anything. But why not also let users tip other users, say, 50 cents to answer their questions? If the good answers you get are rewarded with real money, then:
It is important to point out that tipping would not at all be obligatory. Yahoo Answers would not become a paid service, but rather just let people tip when they want to.
1) Roll the mouse over one of the blue buttons labeled "Submit Question..."
towards the bottom of the Fake Yahoo Answers page. You will see that their prices appear just like in
this paid link.
Note that the first blue button pays no tip (since tipping is not obligatory).
2) When you click one of these blue buttons, a small Payment Window will appear and let you pay.
Note: the first time you pay for content with iCents, you will have to sign in with the payment system you like using.
Please click here to learn how to do it, in case you haven't signed in already.
3) Click PAY to tip and submit your question.
Although the user paid when submitting the question, the payment is not completed until he or she decides who provided the Best Answer.
Yahoo knows the email of the user who answered the question through his or her registration with Yahoo.
Yahoo simply transmits this email (or its hash 
, for privacy reasons)
to iCents as soon as the Best Answer is determined. This is enough to allow iCents
to pay the user directly. Yahoo will keep a commission.
Yahoo does not have any extra work, since iCents takes care of paying users.
In addition to what Yahoo Answers currently offers, it could also allow users to tip other users for answering their questions.
In our example, we used five blue buttons, each with a different tip value. But we could also have something like this:
tip 2 dollars
If a user answers 500 questions per month, and 20% of them are Best Answers that paid 50 cents each, this user would earn 600 dollars in a year.
This technology is available now.
