The New Site on the Block: Seed.com, What's it About?

Some of the top gossip in the freelance writing world right now is about AOL's decision to launch a new content site. Seed.com is now up and running, but is it worth it to freelancers and can it stay competitive to some of our better paying sites?

The first thing that struck me as strange was the fact that I could sign up for an account without submitting any type of samples. Therefore, like many residual-income sites, anyone can join. Once you sign in, you will notice a wide variety of topics to choose from that quote a price of $25-$30 for araound 500 words. However, there is a catch. You can submit your article for approval, but so can countless others. Then the editor will choose which articles will be purchased. That's not really an idea I'm thrilled with if I'm going to spend time researching and writing an article, but I figured that if my article wasn't accepted I could always post it elsewhere to help generate passive income. Then I read a little further, the site states that the editor will choose which articles to buy. This can be one article or many; therefore if the payment is set for $30 and the editor chooses 6 articles, each person would recieve $5. This is the part of the site that I'm not okay with. I am willing to put my work up againast others, but I don't want to be forced to give the rights away to something I have worked hard on for hardly any money.

I did go through and claim a couple of topics. I have decided to put this stie to the test. (of course I'll keep a running tab on here for you all as well) Hopefully, AOL will eventually be able to compete with some of our more lucrative sites, but we will definitly have to wait and see.

Has anyone had an experience at Seed.com? If show share your experience and post a comment!