Redgage (Does this count as a mention?)

Last night, someone that I was following through Twitter has status updates to pictures posted on Redgage.  Naturally I had to see what this was about and if Redgage is actually any good.  So I did.  They have this form that has several pieces of personal information including gender and day of birth.  All of this is mandatory, but I thought this is all on my Facebook account and I thought of all the job sites that have my Social Security Number.  So I registered anyway.

My initial reaction to this site is one of some disdain.  I mean that I can see the usefulness of it.  There is a initial import tool to draw blogs, status updates and other social media tools into RedGage.  This is shown on the left.  Once its on RedGage, you can earn money by people viewing your stuff.  It’s almost like a get something for nothing scheme.

However, it is more like a get nothing for nothing scheme.  To get anything, there must be a large amount of people viewing the blog or picture or something.  You can withdrawal in $25 increments and you lose $5.00 for the first transaction and 5% for any transaction following.  I have a whopping two cents from last night.

There is also a daily contest where you can get a $25 prize (big money).  There are three methods of getting raffle tickets.  Write a knowledge-based article for all the Redgage-ians, invite others, or mention RedGage and provide a link to anywhere in the RedGage domain.  If you haven’t found out by now, that is what I’m doing with this post (if the moderators actually allow this slightly-unfavorable review of their website).

I decided to invite some friends because … well … I don’t know but I really wanted $25 dollars for some reason.  So now I did what I don’t like on Facebook is those annoying invite requests for some application: “Dan really likes Farmville and thinks you should join as well.”  This was exactly the same and to those that haven’t changed the email notification settings of Facebook will be getting an email.  I essentially spammed them.  Everyone probably ignores those notifications anyway.  I ignore by not using Facebook that much anymore.  My mom uses Facebook more than I do.

So what do you actually get with this website?  You get a viewing window for all your objects (blogs, pictures, etc.) and that viewing window looks ugly.  The red outline looks not that good.  Look at the picture on the left?  Does that look familiar?  Yes, it is a WordPress blog post a few days ago.  The upload and import functions work well and if you like everything at the same place, its a good idea.  However, you lose a lot from keeping things separate.  (I enjoy the blog stats for some reason.)

As there are other applications that interface sites together (such as Ping.fm), I’m not sure if I want everything together.  I use Facebook and Twitter very differently.  Status updates on Facebook are very rare now, but as I see how useful Twitter can be, I use it more.  Furthermore, I’m not commenting on my joblessness on Facebook because I have an uncle that always comments on it.  I know that it is supposed to be encouraging, but I don’t enjoy his comments.

Now, today’s contest ends in 38 minutes and some seconds.  Now, I have a question to all the moderators (or whatever they call themselves on RedGage.)  ”Does this count as a mention?”  Not that I really care about $25 anyway.

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