Ahhh! I click the link thinking it will be a quick poll (tick a box) but I find words and more words.
Title totally misleadings bad bad bad
With all the ads and crap titles like this I wouldn't pay for mashable...
Σχολή Χορού
· 3 months ago
HostGator the ultimate hosting provider! there are sure many more but what i like here is that they never try to make you pay for additional things.
Jason Barone
· 3 months ago
I almost forgot about them. I do pay for them, the Baby service works great for hosting tons of email and website, not to mention storage.
windwhisper
· 3 months ago
None.
Stephen
· 3 months ago
Ditto.
ShellyKramer
· 3 months ago
Elephant Drive for storage, Posterious premium and probably more. I think that paying small fees for great services helps keep them great, unlike many, who feel as if everything should be free :)
Jason Barone
· 3 months ago
I think the freemium model is fantastic. Offer something for free and pay if you need more.
iHouse
· 3 months ago
Aweber for sending emails to my subscribers. Be social!
Thanks, but I didn't mean that I send emails to my RSS subscribers, but newsletter subscribers (has nothing to do with feedburner). Thanks anyway for pointing that out ;)
Aviraj Saluja
· 3 months ago
Posterous, when it launches premium features.
Young
· 3 months ago
@Aviraj What services you think Posterous will launch for money?
@Sarah Yes, you can paid for what you like, but you will also find out that there are some other websites which offer nearly the same but free services as Pandora.
Id
· 2 months ago
"Pandora One & Netflix, definitely." - Agree! If you are into ivesting... I will try this simple tool: http://options-tool.com
FriedBob
· 3 months ago
Only ones I am paying for are Netflix (again, counting the instant queue as a web service) and Pandora One.
Pandora makes the workday much more enjoyable.
Young
· 3 months ago
@FriedBob Netflix is nice, but I like to pay 0 to watch movies online via watch-movies-links.net or other free websites.
I pay for Netflix, and I used to pay for World of Warcraft. It's worth it, if you can afford it. Which I really can't anymore. :{
Pam
· 3 months ago
Netflix and Pogo
Jeff
· 3 months ago
As a Mac user, I consider MobileMe to be worthwhile. Considering the built-in sync, etc., it can serve as a cloud server for a small office. You can always say that there are free services, but none that work so seamlessly with a Mac.
Andy Feliciotti
· 3 months ago
Flirck pro is worth it, not many sites offer services worth paying
Shivoy Sharma
· 3 months ago
I would pay to upgrade Yahoo and Gmail ... buy T$(tengaged Dollar Currency) on Tengaged... though haven't done any of these yet :D
foufpalmer
· 3 months ago
pandora one, netflix, emusic.
Katherine Walker
· 3 months ago
None, quite frankly, because that's the whole point --they barrage us with advertising, so we have the 'ease' of using a free service.
NO: facebook, twitter, myspace, etc. should remain free as should yahoo and gmail, unless, as you say, you want extra storage.
Paying for CONTENT is another matter--yes, pay iTunes and Netflix for the music we listen to and the movies we watch.
Wikipedia needs a big George-Soros type benefactor.
But because the phone companies charge so much for the media bundle {I can't actually afford an iPhone yet with the kind of year I've had, and no way can I pull off the $ 130 a month for the service.
But I think tv and radio should be free, as a basic level. Advertising is all over the place now on the web and that's how most of these sites should operate, not charging the consumer, who doesn't know where their next paycheck is coming for, more FEES for a service.... Maybe if they need money they take it from the internet sevice providers...there are better ways revenue without nickel and diming us to death -- can you imagine, 5 cents a tweet? Or on FB, paying to write on an old friends' wall. Hope this makes sense.
Young
· 3 months ago
@Katherine I quite agree with your point, and think free + ads + support should be the future.
pranman
· 3 months ago
Linkedin, Flickr Pro, Last.fm and considering Spotify
pranman
· 3 months ago
I wish Youtube had a subscription service though. I'd pay to not see those ads and to see videos without the sign 'This video is not available in your country'.
pranman
· 3 months ago
Also, I wouldn't consider paying for Twitter itself but I'd be happy to pay for some of the twitter mashups & real time market research coming out of it.
Katherine Walker
· 3 months ago
My last comment was full of typos, I apologize for that and do not sound very articulate. Maybe because I haven't slept all night. Thanks for understanding the fragments. Plus I am having an argument with my husband at the same time because he keeps talking to me while I try to write...go figure.
Tom
· 3 months ago
I don't pay for anything, really, not when there are free alternatives
Perry Mayer
· 3 months ago
tweetspinner, brilliant and improving all the time.
Hellow
· 3 months ago
Gmail would be the only one worth paying for, IMO.
Matthew Lowery
· 3 months ago
deviantart last.fm
Lori
· 3 months ago
I've paid for Dropbox, but recently switched to a portable hard drive.
Perry Mayer
· 3 months ago
Constant Contact excellent for keeping in touch with subscribers.
Diana
· 3 months ago
While you cover much of social and entertainment media services, I pose: would you pay for news content from a trusted news source? (in the near future)
For me, it depends if I can get similar quality information for free somewhere else
Swardo
· 3 months ago
I love Rhapsody. For $15/month I can dump music on my portable players, stream when I'm online and download songs on my laptop (and a couple other computers if I want) for offline listening.
sara s
· 3 months ago
Wirepop.com, an online independent webcomic service c: .
Ben Larson
· 3 months ago
Netflix, of course, and Farmville!
Eric
· 3 months ago
remember the milk, dropbox (once i reach the free limit as well), evernote
Nikole Gipps
· 3 months ago
Campaign Monitor for newsletter service, Netflix for that instant queue (a lifesaver with kids!!), Flickr Premium (I have 2 accounts even, one personal and one business!). That's about what I pay for. Facebook isn't worth the money, they are full of bugs and zero support for problems; Twitter is popular for the FAIL WHALE ('nuff said); LinkedIn really hasn't done much of anything for me. And yes, Comcast charges an arm and a leg for all of this in the first place. Oh, and of couse I pay for hosting (thank you for your excellent service, HostGator) and for dev subscriptions to premium WP themes (those free ones are just not worth my time).
Nikole Gipps
· 3 months ago
Oh, and 37 signals has some great services that are worth the money ... Highrise, Backpack, Basecamp, etc .. once you go beyond their free levels.
Gamucci
· 3 months ago
The only service I pay for is NetFlix...everything else I use I don't see a need to upgrade, yet.
Gustav H
· 3 months ago
Flickr Pro is the only web service I pay for. And some domains.
Luka
· 3 months ago
Tumblr when it lunches premium features and Grooveshark VIP.
Fetch Plus
· 3 months ago
I agree with Avirah Saluja. Posterous, when it launches premium features. This will be one of the most compelling blog switch moments to date.
Frank
· 3 months ago
Yep, as compelling as Flock was for browsers.
Natalie
· 3 months ago
I'm on auto draft for Netflix (thank you for the 1st season of Mad Men and Weeds), I pay for iTunes and fabeetle -except fabeetle is free right now for the beta sign up.
ixx
· 3 months ago
Shamefully netload. Solves most of my download problems.
Liz
· 3 months ago
I pay for elegant themes, 20 dollars a year for unlimited use of great WP designs and customer support. I used to pay for a premium account in rapidshare, but since spotify came along I haven´t been downloading any more music. However, when the spotify app is available for download in the itunes store, I will be paying for a premium account :)
Liz
· 3 months ago
Elegant Themes, mobile.me and spotify is next
Rick
· 3 months ago
I definitely try to keep my payments low, but I do pay for Flickr Pro, Gmail Pro, a few online web directories and a private torrent site.
All worth it so far. And to "justnontoxic" below: Ads pay the bills my boy. Get used to it. If you don't like ads, I'd say stay off the Internet and maybe freeways, that sort of thing. Personally, some of the very best websites I have come across came when I clicked an ad. You're missing out and everyone like you. Anyways, just my two cents.
Miriam Melnick
· 3 months ago
#1 - Evernote Premium. I used the free service for several months, but being able to sync files makes it enormously more useful to me. #2 - Netflix (Now if only I could get more than 60kbps down.) #3 - Audible (That's a web service...sort of.) #4 - Rev3. I don't pay now, but I love their work so much that I would.
It's a wonder that I don't blow all my money on web crap.
Brian
· 3 months ago
Flickr Pro, Pandora, Netflix..
Phayke
· 3 months ago
I love my netflix, and last week I paid the 3 bucks or whatever to for a grooveshark VIP- It's worth it if you use it daily. I would also pay for Pandora One, (and Spotify once they accept US cards). If there were a good service like these for video I would pay for it as well, but it would have to have enough content to be worth it since there is already so much available to stream for free online. I would pay up to 30 a month for something like netflix watch instantly, if it had the same selection as the disc based service.
Paolo Bolpet
· 3 months ago
I'm Google addict... Gmail, Reader, Docs, Calendar...
Zak Kukoff
· 3 months ago
MobileMe, Otherinbox.
I'm having a hard time choosing between Spotify or Grooveshark VIP though
Joshua
· 3 months ago
Flickr Pro, Evernote, Carbonite (especially given the web access to all the files they back up)
oussamamoursil
· 3 months ago
To tell you the truth I don't pay for none. I use what it free and I do my best to get the muximum benefit from it. Why? cause I only have one website that manage very well without the need of any apps , or web service that I'll be forced to for. On the other hand, my company pays for other instrement that we will use to generate data for analysis and other things to generate traffics. We are using weborama and budbuddy, adwords, msn and yahoo ad services. Just wanna add onething budbuddy is an old fashioned tool I don't know why we still use it. ok, that's it, hope that my contribution will help.
John
· 3 months ago
MobileMe, FlickR and when it eventually arrives on the iPhone I'm sure I will be paying for Spotify.
Two fantastic 'apps' for totally different reasons.
nnahler
· 3 months ago
I don't pay for anything at this time......unless you really count Netflix but am preparing myself for the inevitable! I would pay for Twitter, FB, and gmail :)
Ryan Lalonde
· 3 months ago
Gmail I would pay to use. I'd also pay to use Last.fm and Netflix.
Bro Bill
· 3 months ago
Napster's $5 a month deal is the best full-music service option available - well worth the $$$. I'm strongly considering Pandora's premium option too. Also, PayPal's credit card merchant account at @ $25 monthly is very competitive with most other providers. In addition, I have a Flickr pro account and will definitely pay for extra disk space with Gmail when I need it. I recently canceled Netflix 'cause they never had hot new releases without a lengthy wait.
Bro Bill
· 3 months ago
Oh, and RapidShare too!
Doug Barnes
· 3 months ago
Um, just a little grammar issue ... the title of post should be "Which" Web Services ... not "What."
Dan Thornton
· 3 months ago
In all honesty, about the only service I currently pay for as a normal consumer is a Pro Flickr account for the increased storage and uploads (whichs adly I don't use as much as I'd like!)
Other than that, it's hosting and other services for my blogs. The only two consumer web services I keep considering would be either Spotify or Last.fm for music, and possibly a Pro LinkedIn account.
Mobile Me; invaluable for keeping iPhone, MacBook and iMac synchronised. iDisk part is very useful too as is the web gallery feature for sharing photos with friends and family.
I already pay for (at home or at office) Plaxo.com = address syncing (OS X, Windows) Sugarsync.com = file syncing, backup (OS X, Windows, mobile phones; online access) Jungledisk.com = online backup iContact.com = mass emails, subscribe to (email) newsletters
Will pay for passpack.com when I am over the 100 pw limit.
Technodad
· 3 months ago
I'll pay for things that speed up my workflow or provide a valuable source of feedback. I'm excluding y paid-content services like iTunes, Audble and iStockphoto. Top choices: -Flickr (already paying) -Mobile Me (already paying) -Friendfeed -Delicious -Tumblr
Evernote Premium. I love that thing. Flickr premium. I also contribute to various forums to both support them, and have a no-ads option.
Michael Hubbard
· 3 months ago
None. You can get the same for free somewhere or you don't really need it.
Anthony Bynoe
· 3 months ago
For me it would be Evernote, Dropbox, Gmail. :)
Jason Barone
· 3 months ago
I would pay for Gmail, Dropbox, and LogMeIn if I needed to. I'm using Batchbook and MailChimp. BB's UI is similar to Highrise, very simple and easy to use, yet 10x more powerful. MailChimp is the best email marketing program out there, period.
I moved from RememberTheMilk to Toodledo. The UI needs a little work, but it's way better and the pay version can handle Project Management similar to Basecamp, but much cheaper.
RJSilva
· 3 months ago
The photo-sharing fanatic that I am, I spend real money on a Flickr pro account and a SmugMug Standard account (although with their referral system it will be a couple of years before my credit card is charged again).
BK
· 3 months ago
Netflix (also for instant streaming), Remember the Milk (to have iPhone access and some other premium features), and Evernote - the one I will be happy to keep paying for like electricity.
Dropbox, Gmail and Flickr may soon fall in to paid category as well.
Neonsafari
· 3 months ago
For me, Slacker Plus was well worth the small expense.
Domains through godaddy and file sharing through rapidshare. I've also paid for megaupload in the past. Looking into getting Netflix or Gamefly or both.
Guest
· 3 months ago
Motionbox.com is worth it´s 40 dollars a year getting unlimited video storage, really like that service! Also considering Vimeo for it´s community. Other than that I already use Flickr Pro.
Chris
· 3 months ago
Moxy, Netflix, MobileMe (because of the iphone features), and I'm considering Evernote premium.
Flickr Pro. Google Apps (free, but pay for domain and web hosting). Tweetie for Mac/iPhone. Would possibly pay for Posterous with premium features but probably nothing I can't achieve with WordPress.
Dmytro
· 3 months ago
flickr, livejournal, last.fm
bonnielowe
· 3 months ago
Netflix, Carbonite (great for automatic file backups), McAfee SecurityCenter (tho I'm looking for a better protection service - any advice?).
Dmytro
· 3 months ago
forgot to add rapidshare. unfortunately, can't use torrents. so flickr+livejournal+last.fm
carolemert
· 3 months ago
I pay for premium Yahoo! mail purely to avoid the disgusting tooth-whitening and cellulite bellyfat ads. I'm half-convinced they run those ads to generate revenue from people like me who pay to avoid them. And Mozy backup -- helps me sleep at night.
fabeetle
· 3 months ago
Netflix, Evernote, Jott, MobileMe.
BeingAKB
· 3 months ago
Feedblitz, Dropbox, drop.io, and Basecamp are all worth the money. They running my business so much easier.
Johigh
· 2 months ago
I pay for Backpack after outgrowing the free version and would consider paying for Highrise (currently using free version) if I had a business that needed more users; both by 37 Signals - http://37signals.com.
Frank Ramblings
· 2 months ago
NetFlix and Carbonite
Iwatch
· 1 month ago
Would anyone pay for a unique service that only charged $.49 cents a month? I mean people pay $50 for 1-year subscription to xbox live.
All Comments
Title totally misleadings bad bad bad
With all the ads and crap titles like this I wouldn't pay for mashable...
If you are into ivesting... I will try this simple tool: http://options-tool.com
Pandora makes the workday much more enjoyable.
NO: facebook, twitter, myspace, etc. should remain free as should yahoo and gmail, unless, as you say, you want extra storage.
Paying for CONTENT is another matter--yes, pay iTunes and Netflix for the music we listen to and the movies we watch.
Wikipedia needs a big George-Soros type benefactor.
But because the phone companies charge so much for the media bundle {I can't actually afford an iPhone yet with the kind of year I've had, and no way can I pull off the $ 130 a month for the service.
But I think tv and radio should be free, as a basic level. Advertising is all over the place now on the web and that's how most of these sites should operate, not charging the consumer, who doesn't know where their next paycheck is coming for, more FEES for a service....
Maybe if they need money they take it from the internet sevice providers...there are better ways revenue without nickel and diming us to death -- can you imagine, 5 cents a tweet? Or on FB, paying to write on an old friends' wall.
Hope this makes sense.
last.fm
For me, it depends if I can get similar quality information for free somewhere else
All worth it so far. And to "justnontoxic" below: Ads pay the bills my boy. Get used to it. If you don't like ads, I'd say stay off the Internet and maybe freeways, that sort of thing. Personally, some of the very best websites I have come across came when I clicked an ad. You're missing out and everyone like you. Anyways, just my two cents.
#2 - Netflix (Now if only I could get more than 60kbps down.)
#3 - Audible (That's a web service...sort of.)
#4 - Rev3. I don't pay now, but I love their work so much that I would.
It's a wonder that I don't blow all my money on web crap.
I'm having a hard time choosing between Spotify or Grooveshark VIP though
On the other hand, my company pays for other instrement that we will use to generate data for analysis and other things to generate traffics. We are using weborama and budbuddy, adwords, msn and yahoo ad services. Just wanna add onething budbuddy is an old fashioned tool I don't know why we still use it.
ok, that's it, hope that my contribution will help.
Two fantastic 'apps' for totally different reasons.
I'd also pay to use Last.fm and Netflix.
I'm strongly considering Pandora's premium option too. Also, PayPal's credit card merchant account at @ $25 monthly is very competitive with most other providers. In addition, I have a Flickr pro account and will definitely pay for extra disk space with Gmail when I need it. I recently canceled Netflix 'cause they never had hot new releases without a lengthy wait.
Other than that, it's hosting and other services for my blogs. The only two consumer web services I keep considering would be either Spotify or Last.fm for music, and possibly a Pro LinkedIn account.
Plaxo.com = address syncing (OS X, Windows)
Sugarsync.com = file syncing, backup (OS X, Windows, mobile phones; online access)
Jungledisk.com = online backup
iContact.com = mass emails, subscribe to (email) newsletters
Will pay for passpack.com when I am over the 100 pw limit.
-Flickr (already paying)
-Mobile Me (already paying)
-Friendfeed
-Delicious
-Tumblr
I'm using Batchbook and MailChimp. BB's UI is similar to Highrise, very simple and easy to use, yet 10x more powerful. MailChimp is the best email marketing program out there, period.
I moved from RememberTheMilk to Toodledo. The UI needs a little work, but it's way better and the pay version can handle Project Management similar to Basecamp, but much cheaper.
Dropbox, Gmail and Flickr may soon fall in to paid category as well.
so flickr+livejournal+last.fm