Tuesday, January 07, 2003

Paid Content Trends How much did you say that content in the window is selling for? The Net is beginning to pay. The irony is that as the cost of bandwidth falls after years of artificially high prices, the pricing of content has become reasonable and people are paying for it. Olivier Travers points to this Jupiter Research study that shows resistance to paying for everything from text to music is decreasing. Last year 47 percent of people surveyed said they wouldn't pay for anything, now it's 41 percent -- the adoption curve in reverse. So, as the cost of delivery falls the resistance to paying will fall, too. [via RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing]   Thanks for this, Mitch.  I'm interested in whether the trend will expand into related areas, such as people paying for micro-content apps and content, and ultimately for rich media communications (e.g. metered video messaging, etc.). 10:47:06 AM    comment []

Video Mobile Phone Camcoder phone Samsung is readying a video camera in a phone that captures up to 20 minutes of audio/video clips. Talk about your moblogging potential. The 300,000-pixel camera built into all these models features a 2-power zoom lens with nine settings. They can shoot and store up to 20 minutes of video clips with sound, and the video is played back on a high-quality TFT-LCD with a color gamut of 262,000. The user only has to press the shutter once to shoot clips at 11 frames a second. [via RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing] From Mitch, now that's cool.  I wonder if it publishes its video in any standard formats like MOV, WMV, FLV, etc, and how it gets it's data to the Internet -- e.g. can other applications use the video data, or is it all bound up in the carrier network.... 10:42:25 AM    comment []