Comments on: “Innovation guru” John Kao on my cell phone http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/ Exploring the 2010 Web Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:51:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: nusret http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-118128 nusret Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:48:23 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4097#comment-118128 thanks very thanks very

]]> By: David http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-95623 David Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:12:12 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4097#comment-95623 Hi Gregg. Just wanted to comment on your remark. Zong does allow you to send non-premium messages to your users. In that scenario, you need to pay for them. The price per message depends on volume. On another note, I think we still have a massive opportunity to monetize web audiences on mobile. Value perception is still very different and the payment is so seamless that it doesn't hurt users the way it would if they were taking a credit card out of their wallet. A good example is the price of full-track song on iTunes, which comes at 99¢. Take the same, lower quality, shorter track sold as a ringtone on AT&T, it sells for $2.99. Also, mobile is often the perfect monetization route for younger demographics that don't have credit cards but who are avid mobile users. Hi Gregg. Just wanted to comment on your remark. Zong does allow you to send non-premium messages to your users. In that scenario, you need to pay for them. The price per message depends on volume. On another note, I think we still have a massive opportunity to monetize web audiences on mobile. Value perception is still very different and the payment is so seamless that it doesn’t hurt users the way it would if they were taking a credit card out of their wallet. A good example is the price of full-track song on iTunes, which comes at 99¢. Take the same, lower quality, shorter track sold as a ringtone on AT&T, it sells for $2.99. Also, mobile is often the perfect monetization route for younger demographics that don’t have credit cards but who are avid mobile users.

]]> By: Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-95625 Robert Scoble Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:28:14 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4097#comment-95625 Fred: I'd love to come to Chicago. When? I also don't think John Kao would disagree with you. Ryan: music is part of our interview. Fred: I’d love to come to Chicago. When?

I also don’t think John Kao would disagree with you.

Ryan: music is part of our interview.

]]> By: Ryan http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-95624 Ryan Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:24:25 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4097#comment-95624 Interesting, we'll have to see how this pans out. His accomplishments would indicate the potential for success. But why not something related to music? Interesting, we’ll have to see how this pans out. His accomplishments would indicate the potential for success. But why not something related to music?

]]> By: Fred Grott http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-95626 Fred Grott Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:56:53 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4097#comment-95626 Scoble, Scoble, dear Scoble, What one could learn from Paul Graham spending just less than 250,000 to $500,000.. You do not plan innovation..you SEED it and give it some water to GROW! It grows o fits own accord to whatever vision its following its not PLANNED! Scoble, we are doing a video on innovation..maybe you should pan a trip to Chicago?? Its Web 3.0-ish.. Scoble, Scoble, dear Scoble,

What one could learn from Paul Graham spending just less than 250,000 to $500,000..

You do not plan innovation..you SEED it and give it some water to GROW!

It grows o fits own accord to whatever vision its following its not PLANNED!

Scoble, we are doing a video on innovation..maybe you should pan a trip to Chicago??

Its Web 3.0-ish..

]]> By: Christopher Coulter http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/27/innovation-guru-john-kao-on-my-cell-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-95627 Christopher Coulter Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:31:38 +0000 http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/?p=4097#comment-95627 Well cue up the cynic.. :) Groan, another Harvard suit, doomsday-lecturing us on our supposed failings and proposing an expensive National Innovation Agenda and $20 billion to create 20 innovation hubs. Cue up the stump scare-story speeches: "America used to rule, now we are falling behind, spend spend, spend, spend. It's the only way out. Hellfire and Brimstone, must act now." As if a PLANNED ECONOMIC model has ever worked, haven't these clustered Harvard types learnt anything from Communisms collapse? Governments don't will in innovation and prosperity, they ruin it. Well cue up the cynic.. :)

Groan, another Harvard suit, doomsday-lecturing us on our supposed failings and proposing an expensive National Innovation Agenda and $20 billion to create 20 innovation hubs.

Cue up the stump scare-story speeches: “America used to rule, now we are falling behind, spend spend, spend, spend. It’s the only way out. Hellfire and Brimstone, must act now.”

As if a PLANNED ECONOMIC model has ever worked, haven’t these clustered Harvard types learnt anything from Communisms collapse? Governments don’t will in innovation and prosperity, they ruin it.

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