Today, one of the top notch content monitoring services TheWebWatcher.com (http://www.thewebwatcher.com) removed the -beta after three years of fine-tuning and stated that the service will be free for lifetime.

“However the customers are strongly encouraged to donate when they are using the service for commercial needs.”, they said.

The service will be free for lifetime and that changes the plans of the team to make it payable after the beta- period. The users that can afford to donate however will have a “special” flag on their accounts that will increase the limits of URLs that can be monitored per account.

It seems that TheWebWatcher are not the first with the donation scheme in that branch. WatchThatPage (http://www.watchthatpage.com/) are providing “priority” accounts for 20 USD for a whole year. The priority means that your account will be served before the others due to high load of the servers. TheWebWatcher are still not experiencing any load problems and for the moment are sending alerts for changed pages immediately. But who knows, we all love the free services….