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Re: The State of Digital Media: Passion, Goat Rodeos, and Unicorn Exits….

Jetwell — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:10:15 -0000

Great article, I agree that the problem is the business model as your chart neatly shows. The development costs for various devices not necessarily be stopping the crazy entrepreneur. One crazy guy contacted Adobe about inserting a payment system into the Flash player, that existed on 98% of all computers. Every content consumed using the Flash player could potentially be creating a log and thus generating information about the user's content consumption, about an article, game or movie clip. Some of these content would be paying back the users in a global virtual currency which would be kept by Adobe in a global database for all users who would opt-in. So for instance, a game made by Coca-Cola would be paying the user 25 cents worth of virtual currency, say, 'key-points' which she could spend on a good article or a game. Her' key-points would be kept by Adobe, tracked via her Flash player. This is similar to a credit card loyalty point program, except here there is a Flash player with unique id instead of a credit card number.

This kind of models now have trouble working on all devices and platforms, not because it is technically difficult, but also Apple and Fb do not let them prosper. One fine magazine like Wired can exist now only if the founders can solve issues on both of these aspects.

Re: Rob Go's Tumblelog - Ebay is still a great service

Jetwell — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:18:00 -0000

Ebay does not do auctions, since the actual auctioning can be possible with potential bidders physically present at the same site. The real experience of out-bidding somebody that is with you in the same space at the same time by raising his bid one more time, is not possible in Ebay.

This could be possible with a browser based (Adobe Flash is the current best option) multiplayer virtual world and virtual shops. There, people can come with their avatars and bid using a simple bidding tool in the same virtual shop. When everybody stops to bid after a while then the auction ends.

Now that the reverse auction thing is being killed with sniper bots, I think Ebay's one option may be to invest into a Flash based virtual world that will enable present sellers migrate en masse into.

Re: Rob Go's Tumblelog - Ebay is still a great service

Jetwell — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:51:18 -0000