{"id":2584,"date":"2002-12-25T22:52:20","date_gmt":"2002-12-25T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/25\/micropayment-news\/"},"modified":"2002-12-25T22:52:20","modified_gmt":"2002-12-25T17:22:20","slug":"micropayment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200212\/micropayment-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Micropayment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five page long article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/9.09\/paypal.html?pg=1&#038;topic=&#038;topic_set=\"><i>Wired<\/i><\/a> on how Paypal  succeeded where others failed.  <br \/>Amazon,  eBay, blogging, Paypal&#8230; I think we are seeing a pattern now as to how to succeed on the web. Rely on users to create content and to spread your word. Depend on hyperlinking. <br \/>Paypal is acting like a bank for all practical purposes. You open an account, and if I pay you, money gets transferred to it from my credit card, or from my account.  You also get interest on your checking account. Because it is acting like a bank, it may get into regulatory trouble, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five page long article in Wired on how Paypal succeeded where others failed. Amazon, eBay, blogging, Paypal&#8230; I think we are seeing a pattern now as to how to succeed on the web. Rely on users to create content and to spread your word. Depend on hyperlinking. Paypal is acting like a bank for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}