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David Karger.
Schiff, Philippe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2018-05-17T19:07:25Z
2018-05-17T19:07:25Z
2015
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115461
1035419723
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2015.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).
In this document I describe Tipsy. Today's models for paying online content creators are inadequate. With Tipsy, the idea of Voluntary Microdonations is revisited and modified to overcome the obstacles of previous and current attempts. I implemented a Google Chrome browser extension that logs a user's content consumption online and stores the information locally. Tipsy does not require any user input to decide which content is of particular interest to the user. Instead, Tipsy suggests a payment based on the user's browsing time. Tipsy reminds the user to pay and suggests a dollar amount. The user can pay the content providers directly. Tipsy uses no server, aside for some completely anonymous data gathering, and does not collect any money.
by Philippe Schiff.
M.Eng.
64 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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