Founded by local photographer/blogger Eric McCarty, FellowTip is a new site that makes it easy to ask questions and share information on specific topics. What makes this site different from a typical discussion forum, however, is that users are encouraged to provide monetary tips for useful information. According to the site’s home page, “FellowTip is the internet’s first topic-based community where folks can tip each other with real money (patent pending) for sharing information!”

The company plans to “establish a nexus of activity here in East Tennessee and see it branch our from there.” I love the idea behind the site and hope to see it really take off in the future. It looks like it’s off to a great start already.

www.fellowtip.com