For sure, the internet has trained *consumers* not to pay for much of
anything online.
However, what we are discussing here is a business to business
transaction, and perhaps there is tipping point potential. Business
is used to paying for products and services. Many of the original
content producers in the video space do not have the huge audience
size to garner a seat at the table.
But there is micro-value in the aggregation. A micropayment system for
b2b begins to make more sense in the marketplace. It is the
responsibility of we the producers though to train the marketplace to
pay us, rather than expect payment if we keep delivering for free.
r
On 1/28/07, Melissa Gira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And in the last few weeks, the one micropayment service I actually
used and got something good out of, Bitpass, closed shop with little
notice.
Bitpass ran the payment end for Mperia.com, which I had used in late
2004/early 2005 to sell spoken word mp3s, which served as a sort of
gateway drug into podcasting. When I could get a much larger
audience out of podcasting, I stopped putting new work up at Mperia
-- which had as much to do about the community coming up around
podcasting as it did the shortcomings of Mperia.
Melissa
Melissa Gira
Sexerati: Smart Sex
The Future of Sex: Video Podcast
sexerati.com
On Jan 28, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Mike Hudack wrote:
Ah, micropayments, that favorite topic of mine! Way back when, long
before blip, I tried to build a micropayments service with a few of
the
folks now at blip. The challenges we saw then are the same challenges
we see now: in order to do micropayments effectively you need a system
to pool transactions, and to do this you need a compelling
collection of
content from a compelling collection of providers. At the end of the
day building a real micropayments system is really about network
building. No one's managed to do this well.
-Original Message-
From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Watson
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:00 AM
To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: MyHeavy and Magnify and
aggregators in general
I was just thinking of micro-payments. Any info out there on
the topic, or can we have a conversation.
Cheers,
Ron Watson
Pawsitive Vybe
11659 Berrigan Ave
Cedar Springs, MI 49319
http://pawsitivevybe.com
Personal Contact:
616.802.8923
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On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:26 AM, johnleeke wrote:
It is fascinating to read between the lines and learn business
diplomacy from Mike.
I agree with David, when it comes to the legality and
morality of the
issue, opt out simply empowers the illegal and immoral actions of
these secondary agrigators and distributors of our content.
They want
and take our content because it has a higher value that
what they have
to pay for it. The fact that their business model is based
on paying
absolutely nothing for the content is the problem.
We cannot afford it sounds pretty lame when they have
million dollar
budgets. But even on lesser budgets what happened to the micro
payment idea? Wern't computers supposed to make micro payments
practical? Why don't they set a policy of always paying,
then pay what
they can negotiate with the content maker? Blip has done it
so we know
it is possible. If they cannot arrive at an agreement with
the content
makers, then they don't take the content.
This seems pretty simple, and most of us learned it from
our Mommies
by the time we were ten:
If it doesn't belong to you, then don't take it.
--
Roxanne Darling
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