echo.com

Echo seems to have many problems, however if you can get past these it is a decent service, just don't expect to really get anything from it if you live in the UK. The basic idea of the site is that you get EchoPoints for listening to the radio for a certain length of time (1 per minute up to a maximum of 100 hours per month) plus, similar to many viewbars systems, points for each of your referals and indirect referals. You can also gain points if you refer a friend or listen to and rate selected songs (only 2 available at any time, however these change around on occasion). Currently however this isn't really any good to anyone living in the ...

On the face of it, as this only pays in the US you might not think there's any point signing up, but you'd be missing out on probably thhe best radio station around. All the others I've seen let you choose from a selection of genres. Echo lets you compile your own station from your favourite genre and then as each piece of music plays you rate it to give the system a better idea of your tastes. You can also skip a tune if you don't like it. I've made up three differnt stations that I switch between depending on my mood and I really don't feel deprived that I'm not being paid for it! ...

Echo.com is an American-based site and you need to be a resident of the USA to join. Well, all you really need to do is have friends/ acquaintances over there that will let you use their address as a mailing address when you join. Then you set up a station with the music you want to listen to, click the 'listen' button and start earning points. they have a few different things to collect for, but probably the best option for UK users is the Amazon.com 18 dollar coupons for 4000 points, as the others seem to be either only usable in the USA or sent to a USA mailing address, while the Amazon coupon is emailed. The player uses Realplayer in a Netscape / ...