#“Facebook Like + Facebook Credits = Workable Micro-Payments?”
I was mulling this morning over the silly post I did yesterday on Stephen Colbert. In my ideal world, the TV show regional-licensing nonsense would go away and consumers in Europe would pay the US producers directly for each show (and vice versa for US consumers). If I want to watch Colbert right now, I want to flip 50c to the show's owners no matter where I am in the world. Then all of those clips can happily be shown worldwide without some middle-man trying to block them.
The problem with micro-payments has always been the "how". Without massive scale, people simply won't sign-up to the idea. And then it struck me. What if you had a Facebook Like tied to Facebook Credits? Something along these lines:
