Blingo Buzz: December 2005

That's the title of an article on Blingo in today's Chicago Tribune.

It sounds too good to be true, but Cassandra Janda is happy to tell you it is not.

That's because Janda won an iPod Nano while doing a Google search. She declined the iPod and received a $200 Visa debit card instead.

Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?

"Nobody believed me that it's totally legit until I won something," Janda said with a laugh. "My friends thought it was some sort of scam."

Anderson is working hard to convince people that it's not.

"That's one of our biggest challenges," he said. "People don't understand that we can actually make money without having to do evil things. If people use Blingo to search, they will inevitably click on some of those little Google text ads on the side of the page, and that's how we make money."

Read the whole article here.

That's the title of a nice piece on Blingo in today's Tampa Bay Times.

Of course, Blingo is for real as more and more people are learning (over 12,000 prizes to date and over 1,600 blog posts on Technorati).