Qassia is a new website that lets members post articles called "Intel". When you submit a new article, you may attach one of your websites to it so that a link using your pre-selected anchor text will appear in a large font size beneath your article, this is a "dofollow" link. You may also include other links within your article, but they will be tagged with the nofollow code.
For each article you submit that passes the screening process, you will earn x number of Qassia Cash, the more cash you have, the higher your websites will rank in their directory. You can also earn Qassia Cash by screening Intel, inviting new members to join the site, reporting existing members, and by placing the Qassia logo on your sites.
I'm still not 100% sold on Qassia, but they are worth checking out. Like many sites, time is the true test of a sites value.
Whane's Web
On the surface it's a great idea, attracting articles and giving back-links and 100% adsense revenue in return, but I don't believe Qassia is long for this world, I just don't see a revenue stream for them, they say that they post their ads on search pages and the like, but I can't recall ever actually seeing one. Another clue that they are cash strapped is that they are currently running a public appeal for funds to buy a back-up server. Given the price of a server, it seems strange that they aren't able to generate enough revenue to pay for that.
Another issue I'm seeing is that they seem to be getting progressively less traffic from their members (judged solely on the speed of the submit queue). This suggests that previously active Qassia members are going away.
I'm a fairly active user of Qassia after having been with them a couple of months and I am now getting a little direct adsense revenue and some traffic from them, so they aren't a complete loss, but I'm only investing spare time with them, and have backups of all the original articles I submitted so I can easily recycle them if it does go away.