In my last post i talked about sponsored reviews being used to promote products so this was kinda interesting, this could be the next “free” reviews site, of course sooner or later someone is going to monetize it so much that the amount of natural/original reviews is going to be really small.
Blippr is one of the few 2.0 sites that i really like even though they are loosely based around twitter it still is quite interesting to me, i would assume that they will have alot more features soon, and product reviews on almost everything including ebooks,movies,songs,celebs..etc
Kinda like an all-in-one site for everything that costs money.. maybe?
The screenshots that i took below show that most of the things that blippr has are infact based on twitter, but still it doesn’t feel like they are copying anyone..odd..
P2P has been targeted by AT&T as in need of a “Technology based solution…” and James Cicconi (VP Legal and External) states that the solution would have to be “network based…” Indeed the infrastructure giant has been in talks with Technology Companies, MPAA & RIAA, about producing a network wide block for copy right infringement. Indeed the growing problem of copyright infringement, especially through P2P technology has caused shockwaves at the head offices of music, movie and media corporations worldwide. Nick Cotton, general counsel for NBC Universal has specifically targeted P2P and suggest that the current situation “…should not be an acceptable, continuing status…the question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.” As difficult as it is to imagine the battling Mass Media companies acting as a collective, it seems that they have little choice, this issue poses a direct and real threat to these companies, as revenues decline and production costs increase the margins are being squeezed very hard indeed. Whilst I do not necessarily agree with copy right infringement, the pressure that the internet has put on the industry as a whole has had some positive effects; it has necessitated change, for the first time in a generation, in the media arts. Music has become far more accessible, and cheaper to legally download, and anybody is able to produce a song, get it on the net and get viewers (Arctic Monkeys being the eponymous web success in the UK, check out their stuff on www.arcticmonkeys.com, they rock.) Cinema has had to innovate and make viewing the product at a cinema a more appealing option to the consumer with Imax and the latest production techniques of films such as Beowulf. So if the corporations manage to blanket the ISP’s and eliminates illegal downloading will these innovations disappear, probably, at the very least the cost of maintaining such control over the web will just be passed onto the consumer in the end, making all of our media more expensive. Lets face it, even with P2P and other copyright issues, the big boys still call all of the shots and still generate huge profits. Lenin said that all art should be free, and that everybody had the basic right to information, but then again, he was a dirty commie.
The battle lines were drawn in the sand on the desolate and windswept beaches of DVD land. The old format, sickening quickly now from its great age, had been unable to choose from amongst his offspring, his successor. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were the strongest, fastest and most wise of them all, and had agreed to the ancient rite of succession, to swim in the market place until only one survived. To the victor, the spoils of a long reign of supremacy, to the loser a one way trip to the Deadpool. This was clash of the titans all over again, two major contenders for global technology dominance, almost nothing to tell them apart in terms of backing and specification, Like Hollyfeild Vs Tyson (without ear biting of course.) Now, after a fierce battle it appears that the final nails in HD-DVD’s coffin have been hammered home by Paramount, which is rumored to be switching to exclusive Blu-Ray in the near future, according to www.crunchgear.com. So all of the R&D money poured into the Blu-Ray is about to come good, or is it? Many beleive that with the increase in online viewing, from both rentals and streaming video direct from the net, that it might all have been pointless, leaving dangerous holes in the Balance Sheets of all the companies concerned with next generation DVD technology. It seems that the Land of DVD is about to be overtaken by the burgeoning poulation of On Demand TV Land.
Blippr is one of the few 2.0 sites that i really like even though they are loosely based around twitter it still is quite interesting to me, i would assume that they will have alot more features soon, and product reviews on almost everything including ebooks,movies,songs,celebs..etc
The battle lines were drawn in the sand on the desolate and windswept beaches of DVD land. The old format, sickening quickly now from its great age, had been unable to choose from amongst his offspring, his successor. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were the strongest, fastest and most wise of them all, and had agreed to the ancient rite of succession, to swim in the market place until only one survived. To the victor, the spoils of a long reign of supremacy, to the loser a one way trip to the Deadpool. This was clash of the titans all over again, two major contenders for global technology dominance, almost nothing to tell them apart in terms of backing and specification, Like Hollyfeild Vs Tyson (without ear biting of course.) Now, after a fierce battle it appears that the final nails in HD-DVD’s coffin have been hammered home by Paramount, which is rumored to be switching to exclusive Blu-Ray in the near future, according to 
