Will anyone pay for Google apps?

Well, the paid-for version of Google apps, Google Apps Premier Edition, is now available at a price point of $50 annually.

It’s also on free trail until April 30th, 2007. You’ll need to register a credit card to sign up, but it won’t be billed if you remember to cancel…

I’ll be trying it out tonight hopefully, to see what my $50 gets me…but if you’re already trialling it, post below with your findings…

Search for a good cause

I’ve just found out that I can help a charity by using a search engine. And considering how clueless I can be about remembering where things are, that should be a very good thing for the ninemillion.org, UN-led agency providing education and sports for nine million refugee kids around the world.

The search function is question is Microsoft’s Live Search, and the charity drive runs until March 31, 2007.

Time to embace new media outlets?

First Warner’s decided to sign up with Last.fm, and now Viacom has signed a content licensing deal with Joost.

Meanwhile the UK Government has rejected a ban on Digital Rights Management (DRM), but has acknowledged that DRM might infringe consumer rights.

And James Blacks’ internet TV experiment, www.ansathat.com is entering a new phase, with the findings that a $34 website could result in £30k ad revenue after just 50 days of existence. It also found a solid Google rating, and was approached by two organisations, including BT.
Meanwhile, the famed Ask A Ninja site is looking at $300,000 in a year, if it maintaints its’ audience.

My favourite example, being male, has to be French Maid TV, which creates one-off sponsored episodes for around $50k, and also creates revenue by hosting clips on Revver

If you’ve got any kind of capture devices, whether it’s a webcam, or HDTV digital video camera, then if you’ve got any ideas for shows, it’s boom time. The question is how soon the bubble will burst for many of these shows, and how they will manage in the future. Will there be a number of net-only content channels spawned by ninjas and french maids, will they always be engaged in a popularity contest on Youtube and Revver, or will the big existing TV players look to be the arbiters of taste and popularity?

It never rains….

..but it pours…

Updates will be posted later in the day as normal this week due to a few different things.

One is a major project, which should be launching shortly.

The other is a major project, which should be launching shortly.

The second one is a part of www.disposablemedia.co.uk. In a shocking turn of events, I’m now Editor of the whole kit and caboodle, including the website and PDF magazine.

So there goes any free time I might have had!

Incidentally, another of my reviews is now online at Strategy Informer. This time, it’s a review of Battlestations: Midway. So go and read it now!