Comments on: Social PayPal

By: INDEX // mb - Discovered: Backfed

INDEX // mb - Discovered: Backfed — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:02:16 +0000

[...] payment platform called Backfed so fans can give their favorite bands money. No sign if they are building anything social into it. I am keenly watching this [...]

By: Alana Taylor

Alana Taylor — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:19:49 +0000

Forget PayPal!! ORCA is the way to go. http://OrcaOne.com. It’s the answer to your problems. You can set up a payment widget on your site or blog… it accepts all credit cards and the fee is a lot less than doing a transaction through PayPal. Check it out.

And read: http://insideorca.tumblr.com

By: mb

mb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:12:49 +0000

@JMax — either a paypal facebook app or a paypal wordpress plugin or something that lets me figuratively wear the band t-shirt online and not have it be cheesy.

By: John Maxwell

John Maxwell — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:06:23 +0000

“looking for a platform that is focused on the giver not the receiver or the project”

– That’s brilliant, Mark! I think you’ve hit on something big. Maybe all we need is a paypal facebook app? Think of it… you give money to something, and you immediately see that “share this with which friends?” screen (with everybody checked by default)… and your newsfeed would feature messages like “John Maxwell just gave Mark Bertils $10 to keep blogging.” (sorry it’s not more…)

By: mb

mb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:53 +0000

@Jon — Ohh I really dig Manfred Macx. I am imagining a disqus.com but for payment. Let me put the 10 artists I really love in the right rail of my blog and send them $20 bucks each for the privilege. Like the proverbial internet tip jar but on my site not theirs and for large increments only ($20, $50, $100, $1000).

By: mb

mb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:55:25 +0000

HI Mark — I do know about kickstarter but it isn’t exactly what I have in mind. I looking for a platform that is focused on the giver not the receiver or the project.

By: Jon Renaut

Jon Renaut — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:49:16 +0000

Don’t worry. There are people working on this as we speak. Me, for example.

Hadn’t thought about the public aspect, though. Kind of like a step below getting a mention in the acknowledgments?

By: Mark Ury

Mark Ury — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:46:11 +0000

Mark, have you followed Kickstarter? They’re pretty-much what you’ve described: a Kiva-like funding platform for artists looking to have their projects (or careers) bankrolled.

PS. Palmer rocks. We’re big fans of hers.