micropayments

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “micropayments”

• Newsday’s pay wall: From bad to worse

  
  SteveOuting.com — Authority: 515
  What’s wrong with this webpage I encountered the other day? Besides the lack of wisdom of a general-interest newspaper (Newsday) putting a pay wall on its website for non-unique content (my opinion, shared by many other media experts), the worse part is that Newsday.com is leaving money behind. Double-dumb. ...
  8 hours ago

• PayPal Releases PayPal X and Launches $50,000 Developer Challenge

  
  ProgrammableWeb — Authority: 583
  PayPal has officially released PayPal X , its next generation platform that includes a variety of APIs and other resources for developers. Primarily aimed at allowing developers to embed payment processing in a wider array of applications and environments (including mobile devices), this is a major expansion of ...
  5 days ago

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions the news consumer of the future

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  For all the bluster about Google as an enemy of the news industry, you might be surprised to learn that Eric Schmidt , the company’s CEO, is kind of a triumphalist for mainstream media, big newspapers, and print. He took questions from reporters this afternoon at Google’s offices in Cambridge, and I asked ...
  5 days ago

• Star Wars Power of the Force Han Solo in Hoth Gear Red Card Action Figure with Blaster Pistol and Assault Rifle

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 156
  Star Wars Power of the Force Han Solo in Hoth Gear Red Card Action Figure with Blaster Pistol and Assault Rifle Star Wars Power of the Force Han Solo in Hoth Gear Red Card Action Figure with Blaster Pistol and Assault RifleThe 47th annual All-Veterans Day service will be held in Praha on Sunday. [...]
  6 days ago

• “Pay-what-you-want” Drives 57,000 Game Sales in a Week

  
  ReveNews — Authority: 118
  In a win for micropayments, World of Goo, a top 10 PC game for January this year and popular seller on WiiWare, the Wii game store, was sold in an experiment to see what people would pay for their popular game by giving them the option to choose what to pay for the game. The “Pay-What-You-Want” sale marked the 1 ...
  1 week ago

• “Pay-what-you-want” Drives 57,000 Game Sales in a Week

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 141
  In a win for micropayments, World of Goo, a top 10 PC game for January this year and popular seller on WiiWare, the Wii game store, was sold in an experiment to see what people would pay for their popular game by giving them the option to choose what to pay for the game.The “Pay-What-You-Want” [...]
  1 week ago

• Two Heavyweights Duke It Out over Micropay for Content

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 545
  PBS.orgs MediaShift recently hosted a two-part debate by two men with big credentials and even bigger opinions. The issue was whether newspapers should charge for online content. Moderator Mark Glaser did his best to keep the dispute civil. Taking the pro-micropay position was David Carr, who writes the "Media ...
  1 week ago

• Mobile phones and banks, banking transactions future trends

  
  chocobaby.luv.ph — Authority: 157
  and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone ...
  1 week ago

• CNN Money Finally Talking Up Russian E-currency

  
  DGC Blog — Authority: 123
  CNN Money is carrying an article on the Russian e-money system and the coming changes. This is a very good article. Crashing Russia’s all-cash culture Electronic money purveyors make it easy for Russian consumers to make micropayments. Now they’re seeking legitimacy. By Julia Ioffe, contributor “In ...
  1 week ago

• Paper View Monday, Special Free Lunch Eating Freeloader Edition: The Pueblo Chieftain

  
  William M. Hartnett — Authority: 117
  The bad news, Paper View Monday fans, is that the free ride is over . Buffeted by the same buffety winds that have buffeted so many enterprises across the buffeted media landscape, Paper View Monday will be a strictly fee-based feature from this week forward. The good news is that we have devised a micropayment ...
  2 weeks ago

• DDO Guild Creation FTW! Almost…

  
  The Ancient Gaming Noob — Authority: 425
  One of the game annoyances I could do without is guild creation. When we rolled up on Lightninghoof in WoW, we had to go through the same old routine, getting 9 people to sign the charter when we only had 5 available.  We managed to get some friends to create characters to help us out, but in the end I still had ...
  2 weeks ago

• Step 1. Make an utterly fantastic game. Step 3. Profit!

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  2D BOY made around $100,000 in a week. That’s $50,000 each for writing a blog post about a game they finished a year ago. By letting people pay whatever they wanted . 2D Boy stirred up a lot of discussion ( previously ) about game piracy when they used online scoreboard data to estimate an 82% piracy rate for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Downie and Schudson’s 6 steps toward “reconstructing” journalism

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  We are not lacking deep lamentations and grand plans for the future of journalism ( clever commentary is abundant as well). New additions to this canon appear weekly, and many have a reactionary bent with lots of chest thumping and hand wringing. It’s often a bit much — which is why the appearance of a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Report tracks the rise of virtual goods in the U.S.

  
  BizReport — Authority: 528
  A comprehensive new report claims that U.S. consumers will spend more than $1 billion on virtual goods this year, rising to $1.6 billion in 2010, as the market grows thanks to social gaming.
  3 weeks ago

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