Comment The future of micropayments (Score 1) 481
Most likely future micro-payments will take the pre-funded account approach. That is, people will pay $20 or something to an online escrow account, and then when they purchase content they will be charged unobtrusively until they have no more cash in the account.
You can see the beginnings of this at sites like Clitmap.com, a site that has a virtual economy and assigns you a certain number of free credits when you sign up. After you use up the credits by "buying" views of photos, you have to pay for a real account or post your own photos to earn more credits.
You can see the beginnings of this at sites like Clitmap.com, a site that has a virtual economy and assigns you a certain number of free credits when you sign up. After you use up the credits by "buying" views of photos, you have to pay for a real account or post your own photos to earn more credits.
