microformats / opentransact / payments / rel-payment

A simpler alternative to rel-payment

The previous screencast may have tried to use too much technology to enable user-centric simple web payments. After looking around some, it occurred to me that the rel-payment microformat is not sweeping the world wide web. Using the Internet Archives, I found a blog post from July 2005 that announced support for rel-payment on blip.tv. … Continue reading

microformats / openid / opentransact / rel-payment

OpenTransact: rel-payment and OpenID

Warning: I boosted the microphone amp on this one. 🙂 A blog is a great place to accept web payments. Livejournal, blogger and wordpress allow bloggers to make their blog url their OpenID. In this screencast, we see that when a blogger on WordPress.com adds links, she can easily associate the type of link (through … Continue reading