Blueprint-comparables
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RESEARCH QUESTION:
How do these services/companies fit with IVP? Competitors? Components? Collaborators?
Services offering benefits comparable to some of IVP
- OpenID
- Google Checkout
- PayPal
- Mochila
- Information Card Foundation (Cardspace)
- Kachingle
- VRM
- OpenWeb.org
- MS Passport
- Clickshare
- Visa credit cards
- E-Rewards
- Equifax
- Virtual Goods (reward systems generally)
- BitPass / AllAdvantage
- Topspin (other entrepreneurial in music )
- Newstext/Blogburst
Companies/industries who might collaborate
- Smaller banks shut out of credit-card business
- Google (only proxy for cash today)
- Advertising agencies
- Yahoo
- “Usitizers” is on the map of the large ad networks now
sorting that out may yield competitive advantage
- Telcoms / wireless carriers CTIA
- Amazon’s flexible payments service could be useful
- Kinko’s 10-cent copy on credit card – how do they do it?
- Entities which use very small payments
- Parking meter card / university-card systems / private card networks
- Apple’s iTunes
Entities to be "wary of"? (might inappropriate use IVP)
- Homeland Security
- Insurance companies
