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The iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream
I first saw Square’s product when Gizmodo’s Mat Honan whipped one out at a dinner in San Francisco to help us split a check. Here’s how it worked: he ran my credit card through a tiny plastic doohickey (technical term) that attached to his phone. We entered the amount I owed for the pizza, inflated by the price of a couple Belgian beers, and voila, I’d paid him with a credit card. It was a subtly impressive demonstration of the alternative payment system’s appeal to the tech-savvy. The whole thing was slick and easy, and Square’s pricing — a flat 2.75 percent of transactions — seemed a small enough price to pay for the convenience of the service.
Posted on August 29, 2011 with 4 notes
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mocus posted this
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Comparing and contrasting information mapped to the continental United States of America, hence Maps Of the Continental United States (MOCUS).
Feel free to send me links to other interesting MOCUSes.
Urban dictionary:
Mocus - Adj. A state of confusion, often referring to the state of mind brought about by detoxification. Derived from "mostly out of focus."
You need to forgive his blithering; he just got out of detox so he's really mocus.
