22 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Facebook's little digital gift - Facebook's little digital gift: "Valentine's Day is all about pronouncing your relationship to loved ones (and those you obsess over) in the witness of others."
Linkorama : Facebook's little digital gift - Pretty brilliant feature that matches real world patterns. But I think danah is underestimating how many people would pay for their own bling, as evidenced by some social networks abroad
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45 month ago
jimray : Micropayments come to gaming? - The nextgen XBox will supposedly have a storefront to let gamers with disposable income (redundant?) buy game mods
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47 month ago
plasticbag : The Independent pisses me off in two ways, first by writing something dumb about weblogs as online journals and secondly by suggesting I pay to read it... - Twits. Anyway, I'll say this again - a weblog is not publishing. Or at least, publishing and journal writing may be loss-leader, but the end result is weblog as communicative medium in public space...
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47 month ago
Andy Baio : Andre Torrez's TKPal - pay for access to webpage content with Typekey and Paypal; understated announcement, but could have huge implications
jkottke : Andre Torrez releases TKPal, a set of PHP scripts for DIY micropayments - Lets you charge small amounts for "unlocking" content like individual blog posts, a shareware download link, or to get rid of advertising.
plasticbag : Torrez rocks - DIY micropayments with Paypal and Typekey - I've already paid my $1 to read the article in question, and interested in whether or not people will actually start doing this stuff. Big names first, clearly...
cameron : TKPal TypeKey + PayPal for PHP - Torrez rocks the micropayment house
jimray : TKPal - Restrict access to certain content using paypal and php
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