Tag Archive - Tech & The Net

The Application Market…Where Is It Going?

July 22, 2008 in Business, The Internet with 0 Comments

Not much of a post, but just an open question.

I get why facebook, apple, and others open their platforms to developers, it makes total sense. But what is in it long term for the app developers? What is the end game? Who is making this work from the developer side?

We have one foot in the iPhone application game, as do hundreds of others, but only a few companies seem to be making money from their applications…namely the ones that sell the app outright to the user.

Paid downloads right now are the dominant way that developers are going to make money. There are other ways to make money with an application. But the market is still very, very young, and we still need to be very, very careful. The iPhone is a beautifully designed device, and it would be a shame if advertising [on the iPhone] became like a lot of the Flash, interactive, interruptive, crap ads we see on the Web, quite frankly. If that happens, we’ve failed. I know some ad agencies aren’t going to like this, but quite frankly, we have to keep the interests of the user and developer in mind. (Via here)

And lately, it seems that the once white hot facebook app market is cooling way down. Big guys like Slide and RockYou are getting slapped by facebook, the once super-cool hack-athons are now totally lame, and even those companies brokering the application ads are struggling to make ends meet.

So where is this all going?

Playboy Girls Of MySpace Available Tomorrow

May 18, 2006 in Miscellaneous with 14 Comments

File this one under, “ya know ya gonna look”.

In case you hadn’t heard, Playboy unveils it’s Girls Of MySpace pictorial tomorrow, starting with a special sneak peak in the Cyber Club. Now Hugh Hefner went deep on this one. He spent months chasing down leads, and hitting dead ends. He scoured the bowels of MySpace, searching for the rare but beautiful species whorus internetus, that is sometimes found in the deepest and darkest corners of the vast the social networking site. He labored, and toiled, and never gave up on his dream of finding vibrant young women who were willing to disrobe for his cause. It wasn’t easy, and at times it looked bleak…but wouldn’t ya know it, they found some willing participants for the upcoming “Girls Of MySpace” issue, and now you get to enjoy the fruits of his labor, starting tomorrow.

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TALK TO THIS GIRL HERE!!

Howard Stern – Listen Online

January 9, 2006 in Miscellaneous with 9 Comments

Or not. COME ON SIRIUS…open up some of this content here. I even have the god damned subscription to your service, and I STILL can’t listen to your programming on-line? The Jay Thomas show? Thank you, no. Between the 7 miles of wire that needed to be run down the molding of the car, the fact that the on-line activation could not handle more than a single gift card at a time for payment, and the lack of on-line content…I am not overly thrilled thus far with Sirius. I mean, the content is off the hook and makes regular radio nearly unbearable, but they really need to tie up the loose ends.

No Howard Stern?

I guess since we can’t even access the streaming content on-line, that the chances of Howard Stern downloads/podcasts are not really anywhere on the horizon.

Howard Stern Podcasts – Part Deux

August 11, 2005 in Miscellaneous with 1 Comment

Listen To Howard Stern Now
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Ok, seriously. I know what I am talking about. First, it was Upcoming.org’s RSS feeds, then it was Apple’s affiliate program (which was later fixed), and now it is Howard Stern Podcasts.

Via FMQB, Via Adrants.

Coming next year, Audible and XM will introduce the first portable, handheld satellite radio devices that are capable of playing both the XM service as well as Audible’s spoken-word content, which can be downloaded from the Web into the devices’ memory. With the launch of these “AudibleReady/XM” devices, XM subscribers will be able to expand their listening experience through purchase of audiobooks and other content from Audible.

In related news, is Sirius Satellite Radio looking to do something similar with Howard Stern once he arrives? Speaking at the Reuters Telecommunications, Cable and Satellite summit in New York City, Sirius President of Entertainment and Sports Scott Greenstein addressed that topic by saying the satcaster “was looking at everything it could possibly do with Stern,” according to a Reuters report.

Now the above snippet does not explicitly say that the shows will be available for download, but it does imply that the idea has at least crossed the minds of the people who make the decisions at Sirius, which is good enough for me.

I am like the Dupont for ideas. I don’t come up with a lot of the ideas you have, I make a lot of the ideas you have better.

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