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Live content matters

Put together on November 2, 2009 5:30 pm by Dimitris
What do you think?

A few months back I was talking to a guy who works at the Greek subscription channel Nova and he was telling me that the content most sought after by TV channels is none other than the coverage of live events. In Greece this means mostly football and basketball games and perhaps to a lesser extent other sports and music concerts.

And there’s good reason for that. As broadband use and torrents’ downloading increases any type of content other than live offered by the provider can be found online. Films can be downloaded, news and information can be found in many more sources online, even TV series produced explicitly for (and by) specific Greek TV channels can easily be found online if one knows where to look – as fast as a day after they air. And that knowledge becomes less and less obscure – in fact most of it is quite well-known.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s legal or not – which in most of the cases it isn’t. People’s morality (and even their desire for high-quality) will most often be put aside in the face of a free, effortless choice without side-effects.

So the providers are left with only the content that cannot be found elsewhere: live events. And now as internet TV becomes the next battle zone for those providers a prime prize is them.

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tulip:
You're right!It sounds funny, but a search engine providing people with questions would be helpful, but only for the sake of learning how to think, so that someone will get used to wanting to know more about a specific subject...On the other hand when someone wants to learn something fast, it would be rational to just stick to the old...
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We therefore decided to make a tool that strips away the things we didn't like about existing services. To do this, we've worked on technology that allows the user to enhance pages in-line. The user's content lives as a native part of the page, not 'out-of-line' in a side bar or non-native content layer. In the 'first layer' as you put it. We think that gives a different level of control and power to the user, gives a different value to their content, and rids us of the heavyweight UI elements of previous services in one swoop. We let people share their enhancements with others...so you can follow people of interest, and their enhancements get merged into your view of the web.
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Thanks for your time and I hope to see you soon on YayTrail.

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vrypan:
I meant one could write a program to find the Google Reader notes and bring them back to your site automatically.
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