From what I have seen from twitter at such an early stage, which is growing even faster than boxee, Twitter has done everything that they can to allow open connectivity into their platform as well. As we all hate the fail whale, I can understand their limiting. As more clients tax their system inefficiently, I can see more limitations coming into play.

As for the Hulu/Boxee situation, Hulu is held between a rock and a hard spot with their content holders. They love the extra traffic and ad views that they receive, 100k streams from boxee last week alone. It is my opinion that they were not running their IP ad network effectively – by showing PSA’s during two or three week old programming. They will figure that out with better algorithms, weighting, etc.

As for Hulu being stuck between a rock and ahard place: this little sword fight is just a posturing game – no different than YouTube had with the networks in 2006 and 2007. I would have thought that we had this “figured out” after those days. It is 2009, but old media got scared. Own it guys. Don’t run from it.

On a positive note, check out the boxee initiative to have users create the language for the media companies to wake up and smell the digital coffee. http://boxee.pbwiki.com/

From what I have seen from twitter at such an early stage, which is growing even faster than boxee, Twitter has done everything that they can to allow open connectivity into their platform as well. As we all hate the fail whale, I can understand their limiting. As more clients tax their system inefficiently, I can see more limitations coming into play.

As for the Hulu/Boxee situation, Hulu is held between a rock and a hard spot with their content holders. They love the extra traffic and ad views that they receive, 100k streams from boxee last week alone. It is my opinion that they were not running their IP ad network effectively – by showing PSA’s during two or three week old programming. They will figure that out with better algorithms, weighting, etc.

As for Hulu being stuck between a rock and ahard place: this little sword fight is just a posturing game – no different than YouTube had with the networks in 2006 and 2007. I would have thought that we had this “figured out” after those days. It is 2009, but old media got scared. Own it guys. Don’t run from it.

On a positive note, check out the boxee initiative to have users create the language for the media companies to wake up and smell the digital coffee. http://boxee.pbwiki.com/

No it isn’t. You can see that he’s capable of rendering a competent analysis, but this isn’t it.

No it isn’t. You can see that he’s capable of rendering a competent analysis, but this isn’t it.

I’d be happy to pay for content. I’d be happy to have it wrapped in DRM as long as there was a concept of fair use (if I buy it let me keep it forever. if I rent it enforce the terms I agreed to but let me watch/listen on multiple devices if I want etc)

The problem is … no-one has worked out a viable model that will allow the incumbent riders of the gravy train continue to make money while producing decent content (though the quality of a lot of content the studios deliver is questionable now as everyone heads for low cost RealityTV programming!)

I’d be happy to pay for content. I’d be happy to have it wrapped in DRM as long as there was a concept of fair use (if I buy it let me keep it forever. if I rent it enforce the terms I agreed to but let me watch/listen on multiple devices if I want etc)

The problem is … no-one has worked out a viable model that will allow the incumbent riders of the gravy train continue to make money while producing decent content (though the quality of a lot of content the studios deliver is questionable now as everyone heads for low cost RealityTV programming!)

And about Twitter. I could be wrong but it’s a vertical search engine in the making.
The question to me is is Twitter better off when it looks for conversations / status updates / intentions coming from inside Twitter or when it searches for those in other places as well?
When Twitter manages to combine the conversations taking place in some very specific communities would it be a smart idea if Twitter gave those communities a percentage of all profits?
It would be like having adsense on your website but you’re only making money when someone does a search on Twitter and the conversations on your site are being used to monetize that search (or stream).

And about Twitter. I could be wrong but it’s a vertical search engine in the making.
The question to me is is Twitter better off when it looks for conversations / status updates / intentions coming from inside Twitter or when it searches for those in other places as well?
When Twitter manages to combine the conversations taking place in some very specific communities would it be a smart idea if Twitter gave those communities a percentage of all profits?
It would be like having adsense on your website but you’re only making money when someone does a search on Twitter and the conversations on your site are being used to monetize that search (or stream).