| Verizon Wireless Partners with Payfone, Makes Carrier Billing an Option for Online Purchases Verizon Wireless and mobile payments company Payfone have teamed up today to announce a new partnership which will enable Verizon customers to pay for online purchases using their mobile devices. The online purchases can be paid for using either carrier billing methods, meaning purchases are charged to the customer's next Verizon bill, or they can be paid for using traditional payment methods provided through financial institutions, like credit or debit cards.
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AOL's Patch Takes on Groupon with Patch Deals, Powered by AmEx's Serve Platform The recently launched digital payment and commerce platform from American Express known as Serve has just announced a new partnership with Patch, AOL's big bet on hyperlocal news and content. Under the new partnership, Serve will power the Patch Deals platform, which will now offer Patch users deals and discounts, Groupon-style, with local merchants on the American Express network.
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Andy Carvin Tweets the World: Building Networks and the Future of Journalism The fundamental methods of how journalists surface stories and engage with sources is changing. On the cusp of the media revolution is National Public Radio senior strategist Andy Carvin and his use of social media and crowd sourcing to tell the story of turmoil in the Middle East ... from 5000 miles away. Carvin used Twitter to build a network that now keeps him on top of the news that comes out of the Middle East and in doing so has shown the media industry a new way to be a reporter. The question becomes: is the future of the news industry tied to the technology or is technology an enabler to creating human networks that spread information?
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Cartoon: Please, Not Another Banner Year There are times when it seems like the economics of the web seem to boil down to: 1: Find some white space on your site.
2: Fill it with an ad.
3: There is no number three. Check out these great discount air fares! It starts innocently enough, with a few AdSense text placements. But before you know it, you have one of those Flash-based monstrosities lurking in your sidebar - the kind you don't dare roll over, because if you do it spawns some demonic window that extends outside the boundaries of your monitor and knocks over furniture in your family room, while playing The Macarena at 130% volume.
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