Google slides Prizes into beta, helps you get real paid

Come on down! You’ll be the subsequent contestant at the Prizes site. That was overkill, we all know, but it is a necessary introduction right into a new world of online solution-based social gaming pioneered by the Slide team. Acquired by the Goog back in 2010, the low profile entertainment-driven app developer have been hard at work making the net ‘more social’ and filling its Big Daddy’s pockets. Debuting in classic Google beta form, Prizes takes your Twitter or Facebook accounts and signs you up for cash prize-winning, user-created contest shenanigans. In the event you missed that fine point, we’ll reiterate — users design the challenges, you post an answer (or vice versa). Just like the $40 “Give my Dad a makeover!” competition we’re completely unqualified to go into, or the $30 “Comprehensive ‘get healthy’ plan for living in a huge, polluted city” game we’re sure Al Gore could win in his sleep. It is a kooky idea, but we will be able to definitely see the service having widespread appeal. Let’s be frank here: Google + social gaming + prize money = solid user gold.

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