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This seems interesting, but I was even more interested in the payment system, minno (https://www.minno.co/). The screencast shows that they are using Facebook for authentication. I wonder if it's just for authentication or if they are planning to use Facebook Credits. I wonder what Tipjoy's Ivan Kirigin think of it.

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I think this is great. I wish we had experimented more with microservices, especially on twitter.

Merchant acquisition is the hardest part of a payments startup. Tipjoy failed to get the top "merchants" on Twitter's platform to use us. That's because they didn't really want to make money. Look at what tweetdeck, twitpic, seesmic, etc. still do today with commerce: nothing.

There is a lot more to do for minno, but the micro sites are great.

Thanks for the interest! Minno is our main project, and TorrentTraveler is just a quick hack that we put together to try Minno out. We'll be working with other developers to roll out more sites over the next few months. If you have any other questions ping me at noah [at] minno.co.

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