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MySpace Launching A Payment System: Concert Tickets, Merch, Ringtones Coming Soon

by Jason Wilk on November 8, 2008

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  • MySpace COO Amit Kapur revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit that they are working on their own own virtual gift service as well as a payment system that MySpcae App developers can add to their offering.
  • The virtual gifts thing is a no brainer, but the payment system will be interesting. Does it mean developers will be creating apps that are good enough to charge for? Or does the payment system mean they will have an in-house ecommerce infrastructure for rolling out their own Merchandise, Concert Tickets, and Ringtones applications that are supposedly coming soon. I think the latter.

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Twitter Business Model: Charge Companies Who Want To Use It As A Communication Channel

by Jason Wilk on November 7, 2008

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  • Twitter CEO Evan Williams said today that they want to “charge the people who want to use the communication channel commercially” as a way to produce revenue finally.
  • As more companies begin to use it as a method for promoting products, sales, events, internal communication, etc., Williams thinks they can monetize off of that.
  • This idea has been thrown around for a while along with inserting ads relative to what users are talking about.
  • Is this going to work though? How will they establish the rate? Can companies get around this by using different Twitter names? All questions I have for them.
  • MySpace was able to charge companies much easier than Twitter, charging as much as $50K to get companies on board, supplied with additional html room and promotional products. Twitter being a text based service whose ‘updates’ from companies and blogs are often times just a syndication such as an RSS feed, isn’t on the same level to think they can charge for that.

Cnet, AppleInsider, Reuters and Neowin.net

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Ballmer Finally Addresses Android, Shoots It Down

by Jason Wilk on November 6, 2008

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  • Steve Ballmer addressed Android yesterday for the first time, claiming it as non-threatening and financially unsound.
  • He feels Google is getting too late a start into the mobile arena, which combined with no revenue model makes it prone to fail.
  • He also feels like mobile search will become much more important in the coming years, and carriers may be charging Google to use Android to carry their search on the standard Android deck or UI.
  • This sounds like a competitor speaking, and although it makes sense, I have a hard time believeing it.

CG

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