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Sep
22
2010
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The Grameen Foundation's Mifos Initiative is tackling those integration challenges in a unique way. Rather than develop proprietary software with hundreds of country-by-country variations, Mifos is making its code available via open source. Financial institutions can repurpose the software for their unique microlending needs.
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We chose open source for several different reasons. Transparency is one: We believe that banking software, especially microfinance software used in the developing world, needs to be transparent and open. That means open source so that people can see how it works and verify that it's operating correctly.
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May
31
2010
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Is it true that web consumers don’t generally like paying for access? Ask 37Signals, which makes good business out of web apps. Ask those who have experimented with “micropatronage,” like Jason Kottke. (Related research: Paid Content Market, 2010)
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There are interesting experiments taking place in new models for patronage: systems like Kachingle and Flattr, which effectively offer to take a monthly subscription fee and divvy it up between the media you most enjoy (a sort of micropayment intermediary based on your actual consumption habits). But these are, still, experiments — meaning there is still a great opportunity for somebody to corner this evolving market.
Apr
24
2010
Dec
2
2009
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With a new cellphone application called ShopSavvy, for instance, a shopper can use the phone’s camera to scan an item’s bar code in a store to see if it is available for less online. If so, the shopper can buy it with one click if they have already entered their credit card and shipping information on PayPal’s Web site.
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PayPal took a step toward making the virtual wallet more of a reality recently when it held a conference in San Francisco for 1,500 software developers to encourage them to incorporate PayPal into a Web or mobile application. Shoppers have spent $500 million in the last year using eBay’s iPhone application, which is integrated with PayPal.
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Theoretically, it could even be a way for individuals to pay one another without exchanging cash or checks.
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Jack Dorsey, who came up with the idea for Twitter and is now its chairman, has unveiled Square, his new start-up. The idea: anyone with a mobile phone can accept credit card payments.
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Square could be useful for people who run small businesses, like food carts or booths at art festivals and farmers’ markets, who would not otherwise be able to accept credit cards. Theoretically, it could even be a way for individuals to pay one another without exchanging cash or checks.
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Nov
18
2009
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According to a new Forrester survey, almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a very small number of consumers is interested in making micropayments (3%). The study also asked which distribution channel consumers would prefer if their favorite print publications ceased to exist. 37% preferred the web, 14% mobile phones and 11% would prefer to read the content on their laptops or netbooks. 10% would prefer PDFs delivered by email and 3% would read the content on their e-readers.
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I'm looking for your financial support so that I can finish writing my fourth novel, Creation Science, and publish it.
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I've set my goal at $5,000 because if I can't make at least that much, there's no point in going forward. But certainly I'm hoping to do a lot better than that. It will take me four months at least to finish the writing--longer if I have to do day labor to bring in money. So please, help me get as much together as I can. It's hard to sit down to thriller-writing after a day of driving a furniture van from Manhattan to Baltimore or from Bangor to Binghamton. I've done it, but I'd like to avoid doing it again.
Nov
11
2009
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Can anyone point me in the direction for setting up a "Pay What You Want" site/widget or similar? (via @lloyd_ay)
Nov
5
2009
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Now, one startup in the nascent world of mobile payments has moved to lower the barrier for merchants to offer mobile payments. Last week, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Zong announced that users would be able to link their mobile number to a credit card, instead of paying through their mobile carrier.
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Zong claims to have processed payments for more than 10 million unique users in 2009 in virtual worlds like Gaia and IMVU and in games that are played on social networks like MySpace and Facebook. It also boasts the ability to convert shoppers to buyers at rates up to 10 times greater than traditional methods like credit cards.
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Launched officially this week at PayPal’s first developer conference in San Francisco, the Adaptive Payments API allows developers to build applications that enable payments from PayPal account holders to anyone with a web presence, be it a mainstream retailer or someone with a widget running on their Facebook page to collect donations.
At the launch, PayPal president Scott Thompson made an important acknowledgement: “The whole world is going digital, and the future of how we communicate, how we get information, and even how we transact, is in the hands of developers”. -
But what if you could tap the collective wisdom of freelance developers that wish to remain independent? PayPal is banking on this strategy, today announcing plans for an inaugural Australian developer program, kicking off in January 2010.
PayPal says the competition will challenge the Australian developer community to create the most innovative payment application using Adaptive Payments. It says the winner will receive a “substantial cash prize” to help them commercialise their application.
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