OpenTransact: rel-payment and OpenID

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:36:00 +0100

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orEe9dg5gRI&hl=en&fs=1]

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 microformats). One microformat is rel-payment:

RelPayment is a microformat for making exchanges of support (be it financial or otherwise) possible. By adding rel=“payment” to a hyperlink a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink provides a way to show or give support for the current page. For example to give financial support to the owner of the current page.

Simple Web Payments with OpenID and OpenTransact

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:01:00 +0100

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2szB-qyWeA&hl=en&fs=1]

This screencast shows how simple web payments can be using OpenTransact. Instead of making a payment to an email address, we can make a payment to a URL, particularly if it is an OpenID.

The person making the payment simply adds a delicious-style bookmarklet and as you can see below, I simply re-used the javascript code for bookmarking a url on delicious and pointed it to a oscurrency financial service provider hosted on heroku.

Openid on Open Source Currency

OpenTransact: rel-payment and OpenID

Simple Web Payments with OpenID and OpenTransact