Micropayments – A New Revenue Model?

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So what exactly are micropayments then?  As ever Wikipedia is bang on the money.  “Micropayments are means for transferring very small amounts of money i.e. 1/1000th of a dollar.  They are typically payments that are too small to be affordably processed by credit card or other electronic transaction processing mechanisms”.
So why am I [...]

May 19, 2009

Show Me The Money! How To Monetise Twitter

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Twitter is the now quite rightfully the new kid on the block and why not?  It’s about time we had a new poster child for the so-called social web.  Like many startups it has a lot of users, is growing rapidly, and has a lot of VC funding.  What’s more it’s also has [...]

The Real-Time Web

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If a huge news story breaks, where are you going to go first? Switch on the TV, try BBC News, CNN, maybe. But what if you are at work…….? Ok, let’s say a plane crashes into New York’s Hudson River? Like many the first port of call for such an event is the web. [...]

February 9, 2009