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I think a much bigger player (for example PayPal, Google or Amazon) will step up and do micropayments - simply because they have millions of users, money and co

by amix 18y ago

I think a much bigger player (for example PayPal, Google or Amazon) will step up and do micropayments - simply because they have millions of users, money and connections. I think it's pretty hard for a startup to succeed in this market. [Amazon for example has already FPS (http://aws.amazon.com/fps/) http://aws.amazon.com/fps/)]. Another thing is tipjoy's design, I think it's really bad for a money related site. The design needs more authority (blue colors for example) and not look like something from a cartoon.

ivankirigin 18y ago
The cartoon is cute, but you might be right about the authority issue. We'll see how it evolves. We've already gone from mascot to abstract logo to redesigned mascot in under a year. I'm sure that will happen again. Amazon and PayPal already do micropayments. Why don't you know about them? Because their payment mechanisms are more painful than microcontent is valuable. An 8 step paypal checkout is braindead for $0.25 content. We're working on mandated payment options and a merchant API to use our 1 click micropayment system for selling content. The social nature can't be overstated as well. Other payment processors really don't pay attention to that. We try to push the data where we can, and in cases like Twitter, actually allow the broadcasting platform to be the signal to make a payment.