PayPal X Innovate 2010 – Day 2

Glenbrook’s Russ Jones is attending the PayPal X Platform developers conference in San Francisco. His post from Day 1 is here. The second day of payments conferences usually give me a chance to step back, reflect on what was announced on the first day, and catch...

Pay With A Tweet – A Social Payment System

“Pay with a Tweet – A social payment system.” These aren’t my words. Instead, it is the name of a new payment concept developed by an interactive advertising agency called Innovative Thunder. Given the work we’ve been doing on social...

On Online Tale (Social Payments in Action)

Editors note: Our colleague Carol Coye Benson recently experienced first hand the power of social payments and shares her experience in this post. To learn read more of Glenbrook’s thinking on social payments check out this post by Russ Jones. I had a great...

Glenbrook’s Model for Social Payments (A Work in Progress)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about social payments, and have reached two conclusions. The first is that a payment facilitated by a social network is not a social payment—it’s just a normal customer-not-present payment. The second is that social payments are, by...