Shvoong

Shvoong is a website designed for any user to read and write reviews, synopses and summaries about books, movies, websites, etc. Each time a visitor read an article its respective writer earn an amount of money. Shvoong shares 10 percent of its revenues between its users.
The relevance of Shvoong regards that the page provides time-saving Summaries and Short Reviews to their visitors. Shvoong’s concept emphasizes the need for short/summarized pieces of knowledge as solution for the “knowledge explosion” situation.
History
Shvoong was founded in 2005 by Avi Shaked (one of the founders of 888 Holdings) and Avner Avrahami. According to an Alexa.com report regarding Shvoong, it is in the top 3000 most visited sites in the world.
Shvoong has not yet generated so much traffic as other similar sites as HubPages and Squidoo. This page has been emphasized as a world wide source of knowledge because it allows articles in over 34 languages.
Site Structure
Shvoong is a user generated content site. Users, known as Shvoongers, add summaries, reviews or synopses that are posted as individual webpages. Each submitted article has to have at least 100 words of length, while maximum number of words that an article can have is 900. Shvoong supports verious topics, from Books, Internet & Tech, Movies, to more sudential worlds like science, humanities and others.
Shvoong writers can add as many summaries as they want and edit or delete each one of them. To add an article users need to create an account on Shvoong. As happen with most of user generated content sites, users can place links inside their articles as well as tags and categories.
Shvoong shares 10 percent of its total income between its users. Shvoongers can translate articles which are already posted to other languages, and the site shares 5 percent of its total revenues between its translators.
Competitors
HubPages, which is another user generated site which shares its revenue between its users.
Squidoo, which allows users to create content and earn money.
Knol, a user generated site created by Google.

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