Most bloggers I know will scream (or groan or grumble) if you make them sign up for yet another social networking account. I’m one of those bloggers myself.

But this new upstart piqued my interest because it’s actually beneficial and incorporates elements such as blog advertising, blog promotion, a Wikipedia-type database and, limitedly, social networking.

The site is called Qassia and is a “credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory”.

That doesn’t mean anything to you so I’m going to explain.

When you sign up, you’ll get a profile page for promoting yourself. Then you post tidbits of information to the Intel database. You can post anything and everything, from lengthy treatises on quantum physics to what your dog likes to eat.

“What we value is intelligence about the people, companies, and places around you. The people and places do not have to be famous, and the intelligence does not have to be earth-shattering.”

You see, anyone can contribute anything.

Each Intel you post gets you a backlink to your blog and ranks you higher on the web directory.

Each Intel you post could potentially attract advertising and every dollar earned on your posts is 100% yours.

Cool, huh?

It’s now in closed beta, which means you can only sign up by invitation.

But fret not because I am personally inviting you to try it out now!

Here is the magic link: http://anawaz.qassia.com

It’s not limited to bloggers, of course. Anyone with a website you want to promote can benefit from it.

See you in Qassia!

P.S. This article was taken from http://sheylara.com, so called damsel in distress.

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