{Sorry it’s been a while — I just moved to the Best Coast and have been getting settled and heads down in UX work} I’m a big believer in business models for content based on augmentation, contextualization, and personalization. I was chatting with an old friend from Michigan EECS, Elias, and we came up with [...]
Living our daily lives touched by Boxee, Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, and YouTube, it’s easy to think that we are on the cutting edge of media consumption. That the business exchanges that we partake in, whether it be paying subscription fees for entertainment [Netflix], or piecemeal for atomic units of media [iTunes] will be what everyone [...]
You have to love publishers who are trapped in old models of conducting business: connecting people who had unique and interesting ideas about the world, the lumberjacks to cut down trees to make paper, and the distribution channels like a bookstore, Amazon.com, or in some cases, oligopolistic grasp over school boards (in the case of [...]
