by Jerry Brito on August 16, 2010 •
Peter Sunde, co-founder of BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay and creator of Flattr, a new online social micropayments system, discusses Flattr. Sunde explains the Flattr concept, how it differs from previous micropayment platforms, and why it’s more meaningful than the Facebook “like” button. He also briefly discusses progress of the Pirate Bay case.
by Tate Watkins on August 9, 2010 •
Will Flattr exist in 5 years? It’s solved many micropayment problems but begs the question, “What problem does it solve?” Many, like Shirky and Tim Lee, have long argued that micropayments are a solution in search of a problem — we already award content-creators with fame by paying them with our eyeballs. Will microgifts find a problem to solve?