Re: Micropayments: Effective Replacement For Ads?

2001-02-27 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Tim May wrote: At 2:57 PM -0800 2/26/01, Ray Dillinger wrote: If they can fix micropayments so that I can authorize my web agent to spend up to $5 a month and not pester me about it, they might have something I'd use. Most people will skip any sites that cost

Micropayments: Effective Replacement For Ads?

2001-02-26 Thread Ray Dillinger
I don't think micropayments are going to work in anything like their present form. I do not want to be pestered about "is it okay to spend half a cent on X?" or "Subscriptions to Y cost only $12 a year" kind of stuff. That's too much cognitive overload. If they can fix micropayments so