Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Google Developing a Micropayment Platform

(Posted by Dhirendra Sharma)

The below links appear to be directly related to our class discussion on "micropayments".

Google is developing a micropayment platform essentially leaning towards - "Open need not mean free"

1.) Google plan is available at:
http://www.niemanlab.org/pdfs/Google.pdf

2.) Analysis and discussion on Google's plan is available at:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/google-developing-a-micropayment-platform-and-pitching-newspapers-open-need-not-mean-free/

1 comment:

  1. It's a logical extension to their Google Checkout offering. It's also a big opportunity for folks like Amazon, Paypal and Telecom service providers (especially for subscription services, since their core expertise is really billing and sevrice assurance).

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