Reading 'burn rate' by michael wolff,funniest and smartest papperbok since ,"primary colors,"(so far,)sample line,"Dress british,think yiddish."from a vulture capitalist. In Wired today... The crowd of approximately 150, assembled in a hotel ballroom just south of Central Park, did hear some subscription success stories. Sony Online's Scott McDaniel, reported that his company had 424,000 subscribers at $10 per month for its wildly addictive role-playing game, EverQuest. Wall Street Journal Online publisher Neil Budde boasted 625,000 subscribers for his site, at an annual fee of either $59 or $29 (depending on whether they had a subscription to the Journal's print edition). Playboy.com has 114,000 people paying a monthly fee of anywhere from $10 to $69, according to Randy Nicolau, an executive there. That's to be expected from one of the top adult media brands, because a large part of what little money is being spent on paid Internet content is blown on porn -- $273 million in a total market of $1.4 billion, according to Jupiter. But these upbeat examples didn't appear to buoy the mood in the conference's ballroom FROM http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,51146,00.html Another ray of hope at the conference came from the example of RealNetworks, which has attracted about 500,000 people to pay $10 per month for the RealOne Super Pass service. For that fee, subscribers get access to content from ABCNews.com, CNN.com, major league baseball and other services. Like a cable television company, RealNetworks passes a portion of those fees to its media partners. ISPs and other Internet infrastructure firms might be able follow the lead of RealNetworks, Jupiter's Card said. The cable-like model "better work," replied ABCNews.com executive Bernard Gershon. "Otherwise, we're all screwed."
The way seems clear for a crypto killer App.Simply combine a role playing,porno interface with throws to breaking sports and financial news,keep all things crypto under the page.Make it so!
