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"Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde's new startup Flattr has received a boost via a big-name endorsement. Wikileaks, one of the most talked-about sites on the web over the past week, has set up a page on the Flattr website allowing users to show their financial support.\r\n\r\nIn case it's passed you by to date, Flattr allows users to top their accounts up with an amount of money every month. Whenever they see a Flattr button on a website they like, they can click it. On the first day of every month, each user's payment is divided up between all the sites they 'Flattr-ed' over the past four weeks. It's a model similar to Sprinklepenny, a startup we covered last year.\r\n\r\nAs Flattr is currently in private beta, it remains to be seen how many users will be prepared to sign up and voluntarily 'tip a dime' to websites they appreciate. Still, having well-known websites on board certainly help the service's cause. Aside from Wikileaks, popular German news sites taz.de and Freitag.de already carry Flattr buttons.\r\n\r\nThe Flattr team is based in Malm\u00F6, Sweden and has angel investment from London's White Bear Yard. White Bear Yard's Eileen Burbridge told me &amp;quot;We're very excited to see the continued growth and use of Flattr - by both people and groups online.&amp;quot; Burbridge says the need for invite codes will soon be removed, opening Flattr up to a wider potential audience.\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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