Payments Are A Commodity: a brief post
I’m a simple man.
Relatively.
And, as such, I appreciate simple statements. Or, perhaps, concise statements that capture something compelling and cause me to pause and think.
Just such a statement was posted by Seth Godin this morning entitled Over the top isn’t…
The quote, pasted below, is one of those statements that I’m going to wander about the [...]
Twitter and the Presidential Debates: community intelligence
As you can see by the sidebar of this blog, I rather enjoy the twitter experience. Last night, while chatting/reading regarding the current market issues there was a tweet that jumped off the page:
manima Current TV has partnered @Twitter for the election debates. They debate, you tweet, we broadcast. http://current.com/debate
NOTE: I’ve updated the initial [...]
What is a Platform?: a discussion from the past
I’ve written, a fair amount, on the concept of a platform. The term, while wildly popular, is one of those that is defined differently by everyone who uses it. I, typically, tend to favour the definition:
A platform aligns the business interests of multiple audiences to ensure the creation of value while solving for technical complexity.
Ultimately, [...]
PCI-DSS and PA-DSS: Industry Recognition
There was an very interesting article posted yesterday on StorefrontBacktalk entitled How To Get Small Retailers To Take Security Seriously When They Can’t Afford It. The premise of the article is that there should be a PCI compliance tool that can be run on a smaller merchants machine in order to address compliance.
While I don’t, [...]
Google Chrome: What does it mean for payments?
I’ve been lax recently on blogging and updating my shared items feed (in the sidebar to the right) and for that I apologize…There are some exciting things happening from a messaging perspective at IP Commerce and I will be free to share more next week. However, I am now back to creating content (in this [...]