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Re: Google One Today

#11

Post by VikingCoder »

solox3 wrote: post #2

It won't fly just like this - You can't just ask people to download an app and donate a buck a day. You need an incentive. This will definitely work if the $1 gets the donor an "item of the day" from the play store, which Google can most certainly give out copies for "free".

So they'll tie it to gifting. I gift you $25 that you can donate, $1 a time in One Today. And then you get hooked.

If it does Android Notifications, it'll probably be as successful as those Sarah McLaughlan, Sally Struthers commercials.

Re: Google One Today

#14

Post by tomasien »

VikingCoder wrote: post #9
tomasien wrote: post #5

Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.

Contact the team. Ask for a job. No, seriously.

A solid idea! I'm pretty dedicated to not having a job and I'm pretty good at it, but if it was anyone but me (or something like that) I'd do it for sure.

Re: Google One Today

#15

Post by nhaehnle »

ryandvm wrote: post #8
molecule wrote: post #3

"One Today is an app that brings together people and nonprofits through the simple act of giving $1." To be clear: you'd be giving the non-profit $0.98, and your credit-card company $0.02: http://www.google.com/onetoday/faq.html "How much of my donation will reach the nonprofit? "The nonprofit will get all of your donation except the credit card processing fee of 1.9%"

And this is the real value of Bitcoin et al. As more and more commerce moves to the Internet, I become increasingly irked by the credit card processing "tax" levied by Visa/Mastercard. I long for the day we can yank those leeches off the legs of the Internet economy...

Of course, Bitcoin is also designed to charge a processing fee. This is currently optional, but it is entirely conceivable that this would change in the long run if Bitcoin ever sees adoption on a serious scale. This holds especially true given that mining awards will go down. Furthermore, services built on top of Bitcoin will have such charges as well.

I don't think economics as a science has a consensus theory that has withstood serious empirical shakedowns for explaining how high such fees end up in practice.

Re: Google One Today

#16

Post by jeffdavis »

What do they do to prevent fraudulent charities?

E.g. a "save the seals" campaign that spends all its money on lavish salaries and helps one seal a year?

People paying only one dollar are unlikely to do much research.

Re: Google One Today

#17

Post by cyanbane »

tomasien wrote: post #5

Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.

Whats the harm in shipping both? I love that Google is doing this, and I hope all the best for people that benefit from it, but the term "Google" is not synonymous with _charity_ for me personally. Get your app out there with some official branding from respectable charities ("certified by the red cross etc") and I would DL yours just as quick as I would DL something similar from Google.

Re: Google One Today

#18

Post by tomasien »

cyanbane wrote: post #17
tomasien wrote: post #5

Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.

Whats the harm in shipping both? I love that Google is doing this, and I hope all the best for people that benefit from it, but the term "Google" is not synonymous with _charity_ for me personally. Get your app out there with some official branding from respectable charities ("certified by the red cross etc") and I would DL yours just as quick as I would DL something similar from Google.

Read my subsequent comment. Maybe I should make it an edit because it's really important, but I don't ACTUALLY give a shit, and in fact am actually really happy to see Google seeing the same opportunity as me and my partners/clients. They actually ARE synonymous with charity and have a much, vastly grander vision. I actually hope very strongly to reach out to Google to partner on what they're doing once we go live.

Re: Google One Today

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Post by ceph_ »

nhaehnle wrote: post #15
ryandvm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And this is the real value of Bitcoin et al. As more and more commerce moves to the Internet, I become increasingly irked by the credit card processing "tax" levied by Visa/Mastercard. I long for the day we can yank those leeches off the legs of the Internet economy...

Of course, Bitcoin is also designed to charge a processing fee. This is currently optional, but it is entirely conceivable that this would change in the long run if Bitcoin ever sees adoption on a serious scale. This holds especially true given that mining awards will go down. Furthermore, services built on top of Bitcoin will have such charges as well. I don't think economics as a science has a consensus theory that…

You know the bitcoin exchanges are taking a transaction fee in the same way the credit card companies are, right?

Re: Google One Today

#20

Post by MichaelGG »

ryandvm wrote: post #8
molecule wrote: post #3

"One Today is an app that brings together people and nonprofits through the simple act of giving $1." To be clear: you'd be giving the non-profit $0.98, and your credit-card company $0.02: http://www.google.com/onetoday/faq.html "How much of my donation will reach the nonprofit? "The nonprofit will get all of your donation except the credit card processing fee of 1.9%"

And this is the real value of Bitcoin et al. As more and more commerce moves to the Internet, I become increasingly irked by the credit card processing "tax" levied by Visa/Mastercard. I long for the day we can yank those leeches off the legs of the Internet economy...

2% for all the fraud management seems like a fairly good deal all around.
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