The Collaborative Movie Watching Machine
Last night I watched a movie with somebody from thousands of miles away. She was chatting on Skype with her friends, which is wonderful as it brings friends together who can’t be with each other in physical proximity. Yet, all the things we like to do together, you can’t. So we thought about extending the idea of sharing content. Sharing activities like watching movies and chatting about it would be one of the coolest internet services ever. Just dowload it together, schedule a time, chat in parallel and have some virtual popcorn together could be a lot of fun. I think this should be a new catgeory for OpenBusiness. Businesses which should exist, but nobody has implemented. There is a big difference between just having and idea and actually doing it. I am sure there thousands of these ideas out there, but they never get realized, because they happen at the wrong time within the worng context. So let’s share them and tinker with them. Who will built the Collaborative Movie watching machine then? How does it deal with copyright and what would be the business model?
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I’ve been spending a bunch of time thinking about the future of business. For example, the next major Web market will be on localized webs. Imagine this: you lay out an infrastructure of free web access, wireless. A downtown business district, or a mall, can blanket itself, and the use the WiFi, in conjunction with embedded devices, to sell informational services that couldn’t exist with the WiFi infrastructure.
Malls could start having brick-and-mortar stores that are primarily electronic- more warehouse than store. You arrive at the mall, browse around for impulse buys, but can also, via the LAN, place an electronic order and pick it up before you leave. No shipping, instant gratification. Web services that let you do price checks and comparisons- a pay-for-play service that gives revenue back to the companies it indexes- even the stores that lose sales can still benefit.