Surely not? The idea for weegreen (wee as in small, and perhaps as in ‘we’ collectively; green – you know what that means don’t you?) was to marry the power of Google and its Co-op search engine (a ‘collaborative’ search engine) and have real people filtering and categorising stuff, perhaps collaboratively – but not necessarily.…
Since we had to take the demo site down in 2012, I spent an hour or so setting up a local version and snapping the main screens so that others could see how the reward scheme operated. There were a number of bespoke templates driving each of the views, but eventually both Drupal Panels and…
For the very first time all is revealed from behind the scenes, well not exactly, but enough to get a flavour of the system complexity, which required a half time mechanic to keep it fed with fresh and up to the minute data and fresh looking. Naturally Drupal, even in primitive version 5, coped admirably…
The short answer? We had already decided it was all over. At the outset, being an affiliate based site, we resisted the temptation to run competing adverts (even for our own affiliate partners’ ads). Google however kept pushing traffic our way long after we had decided the numbers were not stacking up. So we thought…
Sadly we are closing down the Ecomonkey Green Shopping Channel to new users (and have written to all the current ones). Why? Basically too few people thought this was as good an idea as we did.
Ecomonkey.co.uk was, in 2008 and until 2012, a brand new incentives programme that rewarded consumers who wanted to buy a bit greener and more ethical, but who didn’t have time for fundamental product research or to check out a retailer or a brand’s ethical credentials. Ecomonkey.co.uk also invited active participation of its users, with a simple…
In case you were wondering what others thought of the concept, here is what our main partner reckoned – awarding the site a stonking 9/10. Site Review (2008) Content 23/25 Functionality 22/25 Originality 20/25 Creativity 23/25 Total 88/100