There are already digital download widgets, how is PaySwarm different?
There are certainly mechanisms out there that allow one to pair up with one or two proprietary services in order to provide downloads directly from one’s website. The downside with that approach is: • The solution is proprietary, which means that web browsers will never integrate the approach into their user interfaces. Proprietary solutions have a hard time gaining wide acceptance. Alternatively, open solutions like HTML, Javascript and HTTP have gained wide acceptance. That’s not to say that you cannot be successful, like Adobe has with Flash, but rather to point out that open standards more often lead to deeper market penetration. • It requires the blogger to choose a handful of companies, each with their own login and payment processing requirements. If the blogger wants to sell music, movies and books – they may have 3 music providers, 2 movie providers and 4 book providers. The APIs and user accounts would differ between these providers, which would not only make implementation m
