Comments on: Schmidt: Google Would Be ‘Happy’ To Work With Twitter

By: free virtual worlds for kids

free virtual worlds for kids — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:47:01 +0000

I think the "micropayments" and "other forms of subscription models" only refers to the YouTube side of the business. As they continue to link up with studios, possibly to provide more online media content (from big-name studios), Google would have to pay some kind of subscription to the studios in order to stream content from these studios. Of course whether the cost of subscription to the content should go to the end-user or not is to be debated.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:16:57 +0000

Interesting? Or hypocritical… After so many years of an active campaign against premium content and micropayments (remember Mr. Shirky's "theory" that micropayments will never work bcs people hate being nickel-and-dimed?), after so much noise against online content as something that matters and has to be paid for — now Google "considers" micropayments and paid subscription models. Hypocrites!

By: Joy

Joy — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:53:03 +0000

………Interesting