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I'm currently researching this as well. The healthcare marketplace has a small selection of multi-state plans.

https://www.healthcare.gov/small-businesses/provide-shop-cov...

Are you sure it's solely the amount of traffic leading to higher CPCs? Perhaps your higher traffic articles from December are on topics with a higher CPC? Time of year might have something to do with it as well. It makes sense to me that CPCs for a lot of topics would increase leading up to Christmas.

I hope they aren't planning on changing it to red. I remember in 2005, the Red Cross was going after video game companies that used a red cross on their health/medpack items in-game.

I would not use it because it sounds like something Google refers to as a link scheme.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en

This idea is sort of wild, but auto-generated scripted media. Auto-machinima? I think in the perhaps distant future, even if your favorite tv show is no longer being produced, you will be able to input a script and some source material and have the result be a decently rendered creation that looks and feels like the TV show you're used to.

Imagine downloading a script with very detailed stage and setting direction. A piece of software would exist that would take as input the script and as much source material as you have (seasons of a tv show or a movie) and create the setting, model the characters, synthesize the voices and output the finished product.

I think a lot of the tech to get started with this exists in the fields of game development, video editing, machinima, voice synthesis, etc. If money were no issue, I would work on putting it together. It would probably just be a toy for years before it could generate something watchable, but would be lots of fun.

I'm not sure I understand the PCI implications of using the API. If I use the Create a New Charge example on the homepage in my code, aren't the credit card details going through my server?

*Edit: Nevermind. After reading through the API, I learned you can use a token instead of the card details.

Joystick Labs in Durham, NC http://www.joysticklabs.com/

This is great. We created a similar site earlier this year for Durham, NC startups at http://downtowndurhamstartups.com

I think it's helpful in these areas for startups to see who is around and create a community.