Blueprint-comparables

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RESEARCH QUESTION:

How doe 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
  • Google
  • Insurance companies