In some sense the idea was just ahead of its time. After all, micropayments are a reality today with the hosted APIs and high-level cloud services that seem to

In some sense the idea was just ahead of its time. After all, micropayments are a reality today with the hosted APIs and high-level cloud services that seem to be all the rage these days – services where the primary value-add is in the software that someone’s running for you. It’s not exactly the same concept, but pretty close. Not that I’m a fan of the trend.