Earn money by ... Idling

If you're like me, your computer spends a lot of time turned on with nothing to do, when you on the phone, at the pub, eating a meal or simply sleeping. Wouldn't it be nice to put your computer to use during these times?

You may well have heard of distributed processing before, with things like seti@home, distributed.net and various others, all of which work by getting people all across the world, to utilise their spare computing power to solve large, processor intensive problems.

Well now a few companies are beginning to see the commercial benefit of this, and are offering payment to people who get involved with their systems. Things are still in the early stages at the moment, with all of the companies in the later stages of their testing, but one this is finished they will be offering payment for the amount of data which your computer(s) can crunch.

Currently in it's Beta testing stage, the service will offer a referal service, with a small percentage of other peoples earnings available through five levels of separation. You can sign up now, and either get involved in the Beta testing stage, or leave your details with them, and they will contact you when the service goes live properly. There are no details currently available for how much you can earn. Any referals you get during this stage will count when the service goes live.

Also in its testing stage, it doesn't currently offer a referal service, and exact details of payment are not yet available. You can sign up now and start using their system to do processing to fight against cancer while they test the system.