And in the last few weeks, the one micropayment service I actually used and got something good out of, Bitpass, closed shop with little notice.
Bitpass ran the payment end for Mperia.com, which I had used in late 2004/early 2005 to sell spoken word mp3s, which served as a sort of gateway drug into podcasting. When I could get a much larger audience out of podcasting, I stopped putting new work up at Mperia -- which had as much to do about the community coming up around podcasting as it did the shortcomings of Mperia. Melissa Melissa Gira Sexerati: Smart Sex The Future of Sex: Video Podcast sexerati.com On Jan 28, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Mike Hudack wrote: > Ah, micropayments, that favorite topic of mine! Way back when, long > before blip, I tried to build a micropayments service with a few of > the > folks now at blip. The challenges we saw then are the same challenges > we see now: in order to do micropayments effectively you need a system > to pool transactions, and to do this you need a compelling > collection of > content from a compelling collection of providers. At the end of the > day building a real micropayments system is really about network > building. No one's managed to do this well. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Watson >> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:00 AM >> To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com >> Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: MyHeavy and Magnify and >> aggregators in general >> >> I was just thinking of micro-payments. Any info out there on >> the topic, or can we have a conversation. >> >> Cheers, >> Ron Watson >> >> Pawsitive Vybe >> 11659 Berrigan Ave >> Cedar Springs, MI 49319 >> http://pawsitivevybe.com >> >> Personal Contact: >> 616.802.8923 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> On the Web: >> http://pawsitivevybe.com >> http://k9disc.com >> http://k9disc.blip.tv >> >> >> On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:26 AM, johnleeke wrote: >> >>> It is fascinating to read between the lines and learn business >>> diplomacy from Mike. >>> >>> I agree with David, when it comes to the legality and >> morality of the >>> issue, "opt out" simply empowers the illegal and immoral actions of >>> these secondary agrigators and distributors of our content. >> They want >>> and take our content because it has a higher value that >> what they have >>> to pay for it. The fact that their business model is based >> on paying >>> absolutely nothing for the content is the problem. >>> >>> "We cannot afford it" sounds pretty lame when they have >> million dollar >>> budgets. But even on lesser budgets what happened to the "micro >>> payment" idea? Wern't computers supposed to make "micro payments" >>> practical? Why don't they set a policy of always paying, >> then pay what >>> they can negotiate with the content maker? Blip has done it >> so we know >>> it is possible. If they cannot arrive at an agreement with >> the content >>> makers, then they don't take the content. >>> >>> This seems pretty simple, and most of us learned it from >> our Mommies >>> by the time we were ten: >>> >>> "If it doesn't belong to you, then don't take it." >>> >>> Every particle of the conflict in this issue arises out of the fact >>> that it appears they think they can ignore this basic tenant of our >>> morality-based society. >>> >>> I think the fact that they do, or do not, "show their >> faces" in this >>> discussion tells us a lot about their character and intent. >>> >>> Mike and all, thanks for the good works and thoughtful discussions. >>> >>> John >>> www.HistoricHomeWorks.com >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
