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The Facebook Micropayment System

August 31, 2009 – 8:09 am

This week’s question: Will Facebook launch a so-called “PayPal killer”, a micropayment system for members to pay for goods real or virtual? To me, this is a Flat Earth debate, meaning there is no debate, Facebook is ideally placed to become a powerful payment system player.
First, a bit of history: the Minitel. Once upon a [...]

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Not Dead: The Paid-for Online Model

November 16, 2008 – 9:08 pm

Death reports of paid-for models on the Internet have been greatly exaggerated. Granted: the network’s genome carries the “free” nucleotide.  As in both freedom and free goods and services. Like it or not, its publicly funded origins (universities and the Pentagon) led to the emergence of widely adopted services such as search engines or Wikipedia.  [...]

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Wait, Wait, This Is My Stuff!

June 23, 2008 – 6:08 pm

Social networks and PC becoming an arranged knwoledge network
Let me start with an example. Hopefully, the concept will emerge.
Facebook. The latest fracas is their conflict with Goggle’s Friend Connect,
technology that gives any web site simple tools to acquire social networking features.
As a result, users of my organic gardening site connect, share ideas, [...]

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Facebook’s maturity problem

June 2, 2008 – 6:32 am

Like many startups, Facebook is confronted with a growth problem. Its outstanding traffic (30-35m unique visitors a month) is no longer growing; newcomers tend not to stay with the service as much as the early adopters still do; the Google-induced OpenSocial protocol is a threat and advertising has not taken off as promised. Recently, the [...]

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