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			==1996: Densmore answer to question about payment technologies==

			http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Densmore_clickshare

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		<big>This page provides links to background on the effort in 1999 by the University of Massachusetts and Clickshare Service Corp. to develop support for an "Internet Information Payments Collaborative."</big>

151.203.152.158: New page: The opportunity:
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OPPORTUN.HTM The outline:
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OUTLINE.HTM The Newshare vision, 1979:
http://www.newsha...

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New page: The opportunity: http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OPPORTUN.HTM The outline: http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OUTLINE.HTM The Newshare vision, 1979: http://www.newsha...

New page

The opportunity: 
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OPPORTUN.HTM

The outline: 
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OUTLINE.HTM

The Newshare vision, 1979: 
http://www.newshare.com/vision.html

The need for collaborative action: 
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/vision.html

The founding of Visa -- an early model? 
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/reports/visa_founding.html

A review of Dee Hocks' book about Visa founding: 
http://www.globalhome.com/news/chaordic/bookreview.html

Old UMass news release about IIPC: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@c2.net/msg00410.html

Densmore quoted in Steve Outing column Feb. 1, 1999: 
http://www.bcn.net/~densmore/clippings/outing_micropayments.html 

EXCERPT FROM OUTING COLUMN: 

Will 1999 be the year that the industry starts paying attention again
to microtransactions schemes? "The publishing industry has got to find
during 1999 a viable business model for Internet information
commerce," says Clickshare president Bill Densmore. "Most traditional
publishers do not have one yet."
 

Densmore is a leading proponent of publishers looking to
microtransactions to save themselves on the Internet. He says he
doubts that any newspaper Web site, for example, could demonstrate
that it's cash-flow-positive if it had to pay the real cost of the
news that it presents on its site. "So the issue continues to be: How
long will publishers continue to fund Web efforts as a marketing,
rather than an operating, line item, and to what level?" he says. The
purpose of IIPC is to figure out "how to cross the line into Web
information commerce instead of Web information marketing." 

Densmore predicts that during 1999, the publishing industry will
coalesce around the need to share users and information, which will
require an extension of current Internet protocols "to incorporate a
means to exchange user profile data and track user movements among
multiple independent domains," something that is not currently
possible. The closest thing may be Disney's Go Network, which touts
"universal registration" that works with its various affiliated sites
— Go.com, ABCNews.com, Mr. ShowBiz, Infoseek, StarWave, ESPN.com,
Disney.com, Disney Daily Blast, etc. However, it doesn't work outside
those sites, of course. 

The technology does exist today for publishers to have a shared
microtransactions and content usage tracking system to support selling
information content, Densmore says, but he thinks it may be more than
two years before such a system is in place and used on a widespread
basis. Why? "Most of the marketplace doesn't want it yet," he says. "I
have been completely flummoxed by how long publishers have been
willing to take losses playing with the Internet. But I think they are
doing so because they are afraid to take the leap to new business
models. ... I look to them to resist quite a while longer." 

Resistance to the idea of charging is certainly understandable. Even
if a publisher might like to receive a penny or a nickel for every
time someone looks at an article on a Web site, and if a system
existed to allow this to happen behind the scenes so consumers
wouldn't have to click a button every time they come upon content that
costs something, the immediate effect of charging for content at the
outset would be serious for most Web sites. Densmore acknowledges,
"Web site traffic will suffer terribly when a Web site switches to
charging on any basis for news articles, and especially on a per-click
basis." But, he argues, "publishers are fighting a war to preserve
peace. They are devaluing the only currency they really have —
original content used to draw eyeballs and thus advertising — by
giving it away for nothing." 

"They are creating on the Web a non-business which will cannibalize
their existing businesses," he says. "They will shortly have no choice
but to start charging. And when they do so, the losses on their Web
efforts may temporarily rise. Then it will be time to focus on cost
control. In the end, maybe they will create a sustainable business
model."

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151.203.152.158: New page: The opportunity: http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OPPORTUN.HTM The outline: http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OUTLINE.HTM The Newshare vision, 1979: http://www.newsha...

151.203.152.158: New page: The opportunity:
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OPPORTUN.HTM The outline:
http://users.crocker.com/~newshare/OUTLINE.HTM The Newshare vision, 1979:
http://www.newsha...