How many megabytes occupies the last movie you downloaded? What about the last email you sent? While most people know how many minutes they spend on phone calls, most of us don’t have any idea or notion on how many megabytes are needed to send a particular email, download photos, browse the Internet or update your profile on Facebook. And precisely that is the basis of metered broadband models, or Internet access traffic based on volume rather than flat fee rates. continue reading »
Many traditional media CEOs, especially Rupert Murdoch consider that the answer to the big question about how to monetize internet is about offering paid content. In the other hand, we heard more and more people saying that they are not willing to pay for digital content, probably spoiled by internet “free” access.
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It looks like everyone wants to have an Application store: you see Apple celebrating three billion downloads milestone, RIM and Google launching their own apps store to support BlackBerry and Android phones respectively and even operators like China Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica exploring this avenue.
But have you thought on automobile applications store?
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The success of Facebook, Twitter and others big social networks is showing sign of fatigue as the fad dissipates and digital natives started moving away from these crowded communities to more niche based sites.
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Only 13 percent of Internet users are willing to pay for news content online. At least that’s one conclusion that emerges from UANA survey commissioned by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
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Is clear that the decade 2000-2010 made profound changes in all levels of our lifes. From the way we communicate, interact, socialize, entertain to new paradigms settled in many industries, I think is a good time to stop and think about the biggest losers during the last ten years.
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During 2009, traditional media industry has been battling hard against P2P services. Legal woes against P2P services like Pirate Bay, Mininova and isohunt gave the impression to some analysts that P2P was more or less over. Besides, a massive communicational campaign to “educate” users about downloading legal content, the rise of streaming content as the main internet source of traffic and legal actions against individuals put a question mark about the sustainability of this technology in the future.
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The consulting and Digital Marketing Company Multiplica just released a new study comparing source of revenues and business models from Top 100 web 2.0 sites today. Multiplica analyzed companies like Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, and Wikipedia Among others.
The study gives a pretty good picture about today’s web 2.0 business models and some ideas on way forward that I would like to share. continue reading »
According to a very close source to the microblogging company, Twitter will get 25 millions dollars due to their search agreements with Google and Microsoft. These revenues would be enough for Twitter to break even before end of this year according to the same source.
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According to Reuters, Telefonica just bought Jajah, the VOIP service provider, for 200 Millions dollars. Jajah currently has around 15 million subscribers that can make cheaper phone calls on their landline and mobile phones via its site. There are seven key points for understanding Telefonica´s strategic move.
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