Techaura

: Some good points by Ovum analyst…”Wireless personalisation applications have resisted price erosion to date. Applications such as polyphonic ringtones, which are superseded by more sophisticated alternatives such as
mastertones, will see their price eroded over time. As mastertones hit the mass market they will also be subject to pressure over pricing.” [PaidContent.org]

: The market for online and mobile micropayments will have a compounded annual growth rate of 23 percent until 2009 and will total $11.5 billion in revenues by then, up from just over $2 billion in 2003, according to a new research by TowerGroup.

According to the research, in 2003, the total value of Internet micropayment transactions in the US was $1.9 billion — driven primarily by media and Internet publishing services, and digital music (e.g., iTunes), and other audio services. Mobile micropayments sales in the US (such as for content like ringtones) accounted for $0.15 billion in 2003.

Also, despite emerging demand, micropayments today are still characterized by a large number of competing transaction types. Fee models for processing micropayments include: direct-to-bill (mainly seen in mobile telecom); merchant aggregation (where small charges are grouped and submitted as a single transaction); prepaid accounts (pre-funded by a customer); and direct transfer (where a user’s bank or other account is directly accessed to pull necessary funds). Each of these face the current incumbent in digital content distribution: the flat-fee subscription model. [PaidContent.org]

I dare anyone that actually is considering Kerry for President. Just try and listen.

BOSTON-At this morning’s press conference RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie released the following Kerry Iraq Documentary

Watch Now!
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SpaceShipOne Readies Run at $10 Mln Prize
Tue 27 July, 2004 23:09

By Ben Berkowitz

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Reuters) – The U.S. team behind the first privately funded, manned ship to reach space on Tuesday announced a schedule for two more flights within a week of each other in a bid to win a $10-million prize intended to kick-start a commercial space race.

In a news conference at a Los Angeles airport that was launch site for the first round-the-world airplane flight 80 years ago, Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne, said his team would make its first launch on Sept. 29 for the Ansari X Prize.

Another call for a self-organizing event.

[Ross Mayfield]

Sean Bonner is absolutely right. The ONLY value of BlogOn were the people. The conference was a sponsor driven advertisement – with a $10k entrance fee.

WE (the people) need to just find someplace to hang out – BOTH in meatspace and virtual space and show eher the REAL power is.

I suggest either the Phoenix Motel or the Hyatt Embarcadero.

Say – mid-October…..

Open Source conference – NO entrance fee, no nothing. If a sponsor wants to get involved – have them:

- organize the Wifi
- print t-shirts or other SWAG ande give it out
- just be there, be smart and leave the dogma at home
- think collective drumming circle

[Marc's Voice]

Glad to see everyone jumping on the bandwagon for this one. If you are interested in the topic or would like to contribute to the discussion, use the wiki