Free Software, No Searching from Giveaway of the Day
April 9, 2011
Giveaway of the Day gives away free software every day. No search required. The company has worked around a traditonal search paradigm and crafted an interesting business model to boot.
One recent from ExtraLabs Software caught our eye. True to the site’s name, though, each deal is only good for a day. The company explains:
“Basically, every day we nominate one software title that will be a Giveaway title of that day. The software is available for download for 24 hours (or more, if agreed by software publisher) and that software is absolutely free. That means – not a trial, not a limited version – but a registered and legal version of the software is completely free for our visitors.
“We pay the software publisher for the Giveaway license, and our visitors only receive those after downloading a special verification program and agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, thus protecting software publishers’ interests and making our initiative beneficial for both clients and publishing companies.”
The site provides an app that will inform you of each day’s deal, via email, RSS Feed, Facebook, or Twitter. You can also add a ticker to your web-page or blog if so inclined.
The giveaway we noted was RSS Wizard 4.0. Today’s (3/30/11) freebie is Crystal Office. The catch is that you must install the software within a specific time window. Some of the companies making software available require an online registration process.
The interesting aspect of the site is that search is not needed. We are tempted to mention the registration data and the opportunity for a person using free software to receive marketing emails. Worth a look for some.
Cynthia Murrell April 9, 2011
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