The Economics of Cloud – More Than Just Services, Platforms, Infrastructure
An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.
Why Mobile Advertisement Itself Doesn’t Make Sense For Carriers
Average ad revenue in the US per subscriber per year will be…. tada: $4.86. And that’s in 2013. So even if Carriers would get 100% of this – which they won’t – 40 cents per month additional revenue is not really the biggest opportunity. But there’s more to the game.
Chris Anderson’s Zero-Cost Digital Distribution? Not For Me!
Whoever says that storage, hardware and bandwidth are ridiculously cheap by now should try and scale (and keep operating) cloud storage for 500k+ users – or roughly $23k per month for me. While economies of scale benefit ad-based business models, they also exponentially grow your storage costs – in the worst case for things no one ever wants to see again and you can not delete without driving away your customers.
How Much Is Our Behavior Worth?
I’m glad that Stephen goes a step further and points to holistic brand tracking, integrated purchase funnels, and digital segment profiles. clipped from www.mediapost.com The report was created for the IAB to explain the online advertising sector to public policy makers, and literally calculates how much the Internet is worth to the U.S. economy. In [...]
Immersive Interactive Internet TV Platforms
Rich Internet (micro) TV portals with increasing interactivity are emerging. They include social as well as media immersion – more than just content, but a complete platform. The question is what telecoms can offer as a platform provider.
Cloud Computing Is Not A Resource Problem – It’s A Design Problem
Most amateur database programmers will answer you that any kind of application “basically only needs one big table”. Well, Twitter has proved them wrong. Just throwing more resources at a problem isn’t necessarily the best idea if your design is already flawed. That is also true for cloud-based testing, or even cloud-based testing of your cloud-based applications.
Otoy joins the fray of companies offering video games on demand
Everyone is talking about console-less gaming or game streaming, but noone is talking about the Internet Service Provider’s business in it.
