Headphones Podcast Episode 7.0 The Classic Tax

Episode 7.0 - The Classic Tax; Date: 11/22/2010; Description: I wonder if adding additional fees, taxes, surcharges or whatever you want to call it to each property based on value and position of the Monopoly board could work to better imitate real life scenarios. I think it can be done but would require a little additional effort beforehand to make it work. This would also create an additional role for another player (akin to another job in the real world).

Where in the World is My TV Show?

Today's posting is about creating a business model about the seemingly impossible internet tv "issue." I think that we are creating a bigger issue that it really needs to be. Rather than posting videos after they have aired on TV much like a blogger reviews a new product after it releases, these shows need to be shown online at the same time as the TV broadcast. How can this be profitable? There are a plethora of options, especially in this decade of technology. First off, if a person has a TV subscription and internet connection, both sources have gotten paid for the work being done. So showing it online, on the TV station's website is a form of over-the-air broadcasting. Since the show is essentially paid for, the station benefits by letting the viewer watch it online for free because they get to watch it on time and the piracy to get the show elsewhere disappears because there is no desire to get it from some other source. If the person does not have a means to get the TV show or station currently, charging a nominal fee for the show (charged through the ISP) allows the person to watch the show and piracy is again averted. Basically, approached the Pay-per-View and Apple hybrid model of watching TV shows live online brings the niche market of internet TV viewing into the mainstream because people now have a means of watching TV in more than one location than just the family room. Showing ads like regular TV still occurs much like Hulu does now but can be interactive moreso than TV can ever be, especially since it can be better catered to the viewer. Commentary can be done live, or afterwords but provides feedback to the show owners to get a better feel for how viewers enjoyed the show. In short, showing shows on TV at the same time as on the internet, with ads, is the business model that needs to be adopted. Allowing people to get the shows through Zune and iTunes simply allows for additional revenue and less work since the show has already been made available digitally.

Podcast Link: Episode 3.0

CNN Repost

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MSNBC: The U.S. Economy

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Fragmentation

Today's post is not so much about finance as it is about revenue generation. Many people ask why there is a clear divide between app stores, and is there really a difference. There are differences which is the fragmentation, not in the devices per se (which I'll get to a little later). The difference in app stores is more of a brand issue than a device issue. Apple has only 1 product (granted there are 3 actual devices - iPhone, iPod, iPad but they all run on the same base operating system). How is this different than Android? The difference is the operating system, as Android devices have the same base operating system (only divided by upgrades and updates - Windows 3.1 is broadly not the same system as Windows 95 or Windows 7). The profit structure has its differences under Google's Android and Apple's iOS but money can be made (or not made if you're creating the app for free use). The devices are merely a means to fill market segments by location, cost, functionality, capabilities to list a few.

So what is the moral of this story? Remember in grade school when we all had to learn about least common multiples and the like. Well, it comes into play here when trying to understand exactly why sometimes there really isn't a fragmented market, just companies segmenting the market to make that additional dollar in a "free" or "competitive" market.

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