I read a story yesterday where the Palm Pre price has dropped to $99 shipped with a 2-year contract.  I have been watching the price of this phone dropping like a bag of rocks while it continues to get great reviews.  It is sad because I was a Palm fan. I had a Palm device up on till last year when they stopped supporting my device. Palm OS was simple and easy to you. Then it got away from that concept. It tried to make the Operating Sytem more powerful  and alienated user. They also create a mix of products at different price points confusing the consumer. Then the final nail was support for some of the older products. I think I-phone will kill them at the rate they are going with the price. Perception is reality for many. If I see the prices of something dropping so fast something is wrong.

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Wired magazine has a contest  where users were asked to find one of their writers.   We are so wired today that I wonder if anyone could disappear for 30 days? No email contact, no  cell phone, no internet, no facebook etc. Could you do it?

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 So twitter is going to roll out commercial accounts by end of the year. Would you pay more to have additional characters when you "tweet"? How much are you willing to pay? How about them having advertisers "following"  your tweets because of a key word you use. Would you like that?

 

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As we all know there is no such thing as a free lunch. First it was the text ads that overlay videos. Now fully commercials are going to be more prevalent on youtube.com.  I expect more youtube.com videos to have full commercial at the beginning and end. I don't think it would stop me from visiting as it is still a place to find something I may have missed.

Title: YouTube's new sales pitch: join our ad program Author: MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer
Source: Yahoo tech


YouTube hopes to convert more amateur videographers into capitalists as it strives to show more advertising on its Web site and reverse years of uninterrupted losses.

The Internet's top video channel will try to widen participation in a 20-month-old advertising program by actively recruiting the makers of widely watched clips.

The more aggressive approach announced Tuesday is a switch from YouTube's previous practice of waiting for video makers to apply to the ad program.

The strategy hasn't been profitable for YouTube so far — something that the site's owner, Internet search leader Google Inc., wants to change.

After buying YouTube for $1.76 billion in late 2006, Mountain View-based Google initially focused on luring more people to the video site.

As the recession squeezed Google, the emphasis this year shifted to making money, prompting YouTube to explore new ways to show ads alongside more of the millions of clips clicked on its site each day.

YouTube won't allow advertising without the consent of a video maker, largely to avoid legal fights over who has the right to profit from the work.

That policy means YouTube needs to persuade more video makers to allow ads. Toward that end, YouTube will try to quickly identify videos with a big following and then contact the owners of the clips about advertising opportunities.

YouTube expects the solicitations to boost the number of advertising partners from the thousands to the tens of thousands, said Tom Pickett, the video site's director of online sales and operations.

It probably won't require much arm twisting, given that the video owners get most of the revenue from the ads accompanying their clips. Google won't specify how much it pays each of its ad partners, though it typically ranges anywhere from 70 percent to 90 percent of the revenue.

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