Heddo! Welcome to GemStorm's public beta release! It aims to do what Digg does, but share revenue from banner ads with the people posting content! Recipes, music videos, links to websites... if you post it, and people think it's worthwhile, your entry bumps up and more people see your Google AdSense ads! (You will of course need to have an AdSense account in order to share revenue.) You'll also get a percentage of the ad revenue from people you refer here - check back for more details soon!

You can now share videos in your Scoops! Just enter a video URL or Embed Code from your favorite video provider, and let people watch it and vote your Scoop up or down. Remember, the more people who vote it up, the more people who watch your videos - and that means more AdSense Revenue for you! So let 'em see something worth watching!

We've added a new feature for you - interest groups! Users with enough points will be able to create their own interest groups, and post Scoops to that group! You could create an interest group for anime music videos, for example, and let people join it. Each interest group will have its own section for its own Scoops, so users can get a list of Scoops for, say, anime music videos all in one place! When you post a Scoop to an interest group, you'll have the option of making it Public (available both in the group and to everyone else), or Private (just available to members of that group). This means you'll be able to create a private group just for your friends, and show them video of, say, what happened at the party the other night, without the whole world getting an eyeful. (Unless you want them to!) Interest groups should be a whole lot of fun for everyone.