Michael Arrington of Techcrunch reported a Digg user account being sold on eBay.
Apparently even your identity and popularity can be sold on eBay these days.
A couple interesting things to note about this sale. The current bid is $325. But, the bid seems to be falsely driven up by a brand spanking new eBay Profile named onstartups who was created yesterday and so far never done anything on eBay. Not very subtle.
Somebody else has matched onstartups top bid, so the bidding war seems to be working.
Michael Arrington points out that the value of the Digg acount does have potential real monetary value both from Netscape’s offer to pay top Digg users to submit stories for Digg instead, and from the potential of using the Digg account on Digg to increase the chance of a users stories reaching the front page of Digg and landing the writer of the story extra adclick revenue.
Maybe that is the next phase. Maybe bloggers will start paying the big submitters to submit their own posts in the hope of attracting more readers and advertising revenue.
Everything online is for sale.
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