Interesting idea, however how will this differ from creating a facebook like page which hides the content like people do already?!
I think there is also user experience to factor in here. When I visit a bands page, take blur for a hypothetical example, I've already decided I like the band. When offered something for free to like them I've already make a concious decision to support them.
For your idea to be successful it will need to be embedded into sites where people already have engagement.
As a stand alone page it just won't work, unless you want to allow it to be branded per page, but that carries too much overhead.
Go for contracts with EMI or Time Warner and get your 'like > reward' product on hundreds of sites
The embedable widget/button for publishers goes in this direction, but I think the full download page is important. I want everyone to recognize that Likes and Tweets are really valuable, so valuable that publishers would give out free art and content to receive that social buzz.
In comparison to Facebook pages, Color links are more portable. You can easily include it in a status update also, rather than landing pages (which necessarily include the logic to check for Likes). This is especially relevant if publishers switch to the Timeline, which makes it much harder to do "Like gating". See http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/death-of-the-facebook-defau...
I think there is also user experience to factor in here. When I visit a bands page, take blur for a hypothetical example, I've already decided I like the band. When offered something for free to like them I've already make a concious decision to support them.
For your idea to be successful it will need to be embedded into sites where people already have engagement.
As a stand alone page it just won't work, unless you want to allow it to be branded per page, but that carries too much overhead.
Go for contracts with EMI or Time Warner and get your 'like > reward' product on hundreds of sites