We are clearly geniuses. Somebody should be paying us massive amounts of money for our ideas. ;)
On 13-Nov-08, at 10:57 PM, @sull wrote: I agree, Rupert. I had written an additional 2 paragraphs about TV as it is and tonights experience trying to sit down with no interruptions, no puter... just sit down and watch some show i never heard of (Life on Mars - weird!). And it was intolerable with all the commercial breaks. I felt like i was getting way off-topic with a rant. and there ya go talking some on that point. Now i'm reading this rrw netflix article after i was mentioning netflix. even used the word ripe! maybe it was me who invented YouTube! ;) @sull On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for posting, but it and the comments that followed were just > annoying. Totally misses the point. > > One day soon someone will come up with a video interface that truly > brings internet TV to the couch for more than just geeks, which shows > more than just badly encoded 5 minute YouTube funnies and stolen > archive clips. > > Then some money will come. And not the kind of money that they > extort for TV. > > On top of that, the video content will be densely interwoven with a > mass of other videos and media and text pages and social networks. > All of which provide their own monetisation opportunities. Adverts > will be related to the content in some way. It won't just be > advertisers having a single one-way chance to interrupt your > favourite shows for five minutes every quarter of an hour to fire > shouty messages at you that are totally unrelated to what you're > watching, hoping that some of their shit sticks next time you're out > shopping. Thank god. > > I don't even really care about this that passionately - I don't > intend to make my living from internet TV or a web 2.0 startup. But > all this seems so obvious to me that I'm just amazed when other > people rail against it as if online video is just some kind of > passing fad. Whatever. > > Rupert > http://twittervlog.tv > > > On 13-Nov-08, at 10:01 PM, @sull wrote: > > of interest... > > http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/online-video-wheres-the-money/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
