The accessibility community is very small and highly networked. I can introduce you to individual developers if you are interested. I guess HN doesn't allow Private Messages, but you can find me on linkedin linkedin.com/in/chrmaury
Thank you! This is the point I was trying to make in the article. I don't think I articulated it all that well. The technology exists, it's just branded incorrectly.
I would fully except there to be people with deep pockets paying more often than others, but that's an interesting thought. How much would that affect the content being produced.
The pay wall was exactly what I was thinking. It would get users used to paying for upvotes, and then when that money runs out, their credit card is already linked, and makes it easier to fill up.
The main goal is to create a market which supports high quality/high cost content.
The problem is creating a market for content creation. The idea is that if you can generate revenu from quality content, then more quality content will be generated. Think of what Etsy has done for small craft products or what hollywood has done for movies. HN and reddit have created enough of a viewership that an upvote has some amount of value. However that value is only enough to support link aggregation, blog posts, and other low value items.
the idea behind charging to post/upvote is to generate enough of a return to warrant higher value content creation.
Yea, broken machines or people getting mugged right after cashing out are both concerns. But the people who would benefit most from something like this would be least likely to have a bank account.
1. Patents are awarded based on first to file not first to invent.
2. More funding to decrease wait times for filers
3. Patent Review process for challenges
Why, did I hear about this first from WaPo/AP an not TechCrunch?
I see Reader is my main consumption service, and I see G+ as my potential broadcasting service. That being the case I would like to see more integration.
like = +1
Share= Share on G+
Share w/ comment = Share with comment on G+
Are there any other features? related to G+ or otherwise?
It's also stealing massive market share from JAWS.