Comments on: DEMO: Bringing Micropayments to User-Generated Content

By: alton

alton — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:54:12 +0000

Happy to report the search/tagging issues I mentioned in my previous comment (above) has finally been resolved.

By: fatfoogoo

fatfoogoo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:22:40 +0000

Odd that there’s no mention of Google’s quiet announcement at the AGDC regarding player-2-player micro transaction/payments.

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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:46:32 +0000

[...] get Americans comfortable with micropayments, but seems like we may near the tipping point today. Stacey Higginbotham writes in Gigaom about two micropayment sites that were at Demo and Cyndy Aleo-Carreira writing for the [...]

By: alton

alton — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:00:48 +0000

Conceptually Photorade is a great idea. With a low barrier to entry, the ability to set my own price, and accessibility is a win win for all. However… my experience has not been a good one so far – granted the site is still in beta. I posted a number of images, filled in the tags, and pricing, etc. The images show up nicely in my ‘portfolio’. The (big) problem comes when I try to search. I put in a search on one of my tags, several images are found, however, none of mine – this is a problem. I submitted a trouble ticket nearly a month ago, and added more info since. The only response I’ve received is “thanks for the suggestion” Hmmm. The other issue has developed over the last little while – the kinds of images that are being posted, and thus clutter up a search, etc. I’m not quite sure how many folks are interested in buying a coffee mug with one of several hundred (poorly photographed) pictures from Bob and Teresa’s wedding. There seems to be no editorial control – even in the staff posts. (wedding albums should be kept private in this case) I was/am hoping this might be an alternative for stock photo sales, yet it seems to be becoming as bloated and aimless as a Flickr.