"We are aggressively seeking partnerships with one or more technology companies, publishers and audience owners such as banks and ISPs to me the Clickshare technology rapidly into the marketplace," said said Bill Densmore, president and co-founder of Clickshare.
A six-month prototype demonstration of the Token Validation Service technology involved nearly 2,000 users. Marketed as the Clickshare Service, TVS was tested with three publishers: The American Reporter, Studio Briefing and The Christian Science Monitor.
Clickshare is now seeking a patent for TVS. "We believe the service constitutes a novel application of technology to the problem of how to make the Internet commercially viable," said Densmore.
So far, consumer web publishers have tried to become profitable on advertising alone. Increasingly, they are viewing micropayments and personalized information delivery as essential to boosting revenues -- but few sites have actually ramped up such services.
"We regard TVS as a vital service -- because it offers an infrastructure for tagging and identifying Internet users for a variety of purposes -- as required for Internet information commerce to become mainstream," said Densmore. "There are many publishers and equity partners who have looked at what we have and may want to play a role in bringing it to market."
Parties interested in trialing or licensing the TVS technology should contact Clickshare Service Corp. [413-458-8001 or corp@clickshare.com] to obtain an information packet and arrange for a demonstration.
About the Clickshare Service (TVS)
Clickshare is a client-server based, distributed user-management system
for Internet
commerce. It enables aggregation of content subscriptions, micropayments,
audience measurement by
identified user, personalization using a "reverse cookie" approach and
Web-site access control. Clickshare employs "Digital Calling Card (SM)"
technology which
allows users to view and purchase information at multiple, independent web
sites using a single ID and password. It enables sale of information "by the
click" down to 10 cents per item. TVS requires no special end-user software.
More information about TVS may be found at: http://www.clickshare.com/.
"Clickshare" is a registered servicemark of Clickshare Service Corp.
About Clickshare Service Corp.
Clickshare Service Corp.
[www.clickshare.com], was formed in 1997 to acquire technology developed
by two affiliated companies, Newshare Corp. and Clickshare Corp.
The company is researching ways for publishers to
enter the next
century by profitably sharing users and information. The TVS/Clickshare
technology is
the first spinoff of its efforts. Clickshare Service Corp. is privately
held
and
funded and has strategic relationships with Massachusetts Ventures Inc. , the
Applied Computing Systems Institute of
Massachusetts Inc. and the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School
of Management.