Exciting new stuff!
Seriously, I’m getting all excited about the next version of astrofish.net. The delivery system is the ubiquitous WordPress, and what it needed, that little extra kick? Okay, there are several, but one that allows for the “99 cent” horoscope? Micro-payments, and macro-horoscopes!
I envisioned this some time ago, and while the fiscal overhead is kind of steep, as in, there’s a bigger cut for the processing gateway, i.e., middle-person gets a larger slice – it doesn’t matter – I can honestly offer the “less than a buck” boutique horoscopes.
It works out better and better, as I’ve toyed with that Wish List WordPress plugin – the “more” button hides the unpaid from the paid. The login is automated and after logging in? Can set it up to greet the subscribers by name.
Or, I could set it to just let the registered members see the new stuff, while the week-old material is the teaser.
Plenty of options, and the automated set-up for the PayPal payment gateway, then the login and password? Slick. At the end of the paid time-frame? Poof. All gone.
Kick the tires, see if anything’s wrong.
A strict horoscope RSS feed.
The ability to ping Twitter and FaceBook, just for scopes. That was a cute hack, ping Twitter and have Twitter ping FB.
Paid Content:
Interesting take. Rethink old ideas?
One more feature:
As I looked around on the web, I didn’t find many (none that I found) astrology/horoscope sites that included a “leave comment” section.
That’s coming, too.