It is billed as a way for content creators to give the music, photos, software, or whatever, away for free, to get popular and still make money.
I discovered it through a link on its creator, Peter Sunde's blog. Sunde is a former Pirate Bay operator who left the intellectual property debate to work on Flattr.
Anyway, by looking at the source code on a blog page with a flattr button, I found flattr.com/api, which was a custom 404 that gave links to the good stuff, a peek at the remarkably digg-like interface that leaves more questions than answers.
Since my tweets about it, the whole site has been password-protected. However, I have one screenshot that shows everything I know from browsing around:
You can basically see digg with different colors. There are categories, a tag cloud, comments, and the flattr button.
Registration was intentionally broken, and I found nothing about how "social micropayments" work (or even what they are). It is possible that each "flattr" is a certain amount of money, but there are of course other possibilities.
The site's about page backed up the launch date for later this month on the public homepage, saying "the first release was in 2009".
Do you think flattr can work? Feel free to comment.
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