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HitBliss Is So Familiar But Yet So Strange, Because You Can Watch Ads To Earn Cash To Pay For Digital Contents

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Digital contents are cheap, because everywhere you look there are some more.  This is why some people are cutting their traditional TV cord and opting for Netflix, Hulu Plus, and the likes.  Nonetheless, it doesn’t mean that everyone can afford any digital content whenever.  Let say, subscribing to too many cheap services such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, or other similar type of services can push up the monthly spending by a lot.  Perhaps, this is why HitBliss is here to alleviate some of us from spending too much on digital contents.

What?  According to Forbes “Watch Ads, Get Paid: Is This The Future Of Ad-Supported Content?” article, you and I can easily watch a new movie — that is available for online rental — for free if you and I are willing to watch few ads here and there.  Perhaps, you insist that this is nothing new, because you can just do the same thing on Hulu.  Nonetheless, I think HitBliss is onto something new.  Basically, if I’m not wrong you can earn HitBliss cash by watching video ads, and the cash you earned can be accrued to pay for digital contents.  I’m not sure if this is HitBliss virtual currency or real cash.  Nonetheless, since HitBliss allows you to earn cash to pay for digital contents, it’s different from Hulu in many ways.  Let see, if I’m not wrong, with HitBliss cash you might be able to pay for digital contents other than just movies.

How would HitBliss operate?  A guess work on my part, I think HitBliss shakes hand with digital content partners to license those hot digital contents, streams or distributes digital contents to end users, collects the digital content costs from advertisers who got their commercials aired to the end users, and eventually separates the digital content license fees from profits to make sure there would be money to pay up to digital content partners.  In a way, it feels like HitBliss just modernizes the traditional TV/ads model and more.  And more in a sense that HitBliss allows the end users to pay for whatever digital contents with the money they earn from HitBliss.  And more in a sense that advertisers now will know that they will always have the right audiences for their advertisements.  How?  According to Forbes, HitBliss will annoy end users with frequent interruptions to make sure that the end users are actually watching the advertisements and not just turning on the display and walk away.  Furthermore, HitBliss might personalize the advertisements to tailor the advertisements that fit the taste of each end user.  How might HitBliss going about to do that?  I guess HitBliss can collect end user data such as digital content purchasing behavior, digital surveys, and so on.  If HitBliss is able to tailor such ads for different groups, I can see that the advertisers will love to see how their ads perform specifically for specific audiences to maximize their advertising effectiveness and minimize the advertising budget (i.e., save costs).

Will HitBliss business model work?  I think it’s a guess work since nobody has yet seen how this business model performs ever before.  Nonetheless, I’ve a feeling that HitBliss is onto something quite interesting.  Let say, if HitBliss is able to license enough digital contents to distribute to end users and executing superbly in delivering core services, I can see that HitBliss might be making it big.  Then there is also a question about will today, online end users want to expose themselves to online ads so they can get free digital contents such as free movies?  So far, Hulu Plus is doing OK with forcefully showing ads even though end users are already paid up for the service.  Maybe, HitBliss will find its business model will be OK too.  Anyhow, I think HitBliss might be something big and people like us will have another choice to go to for consuming awesome digital contents, affordably.  So let see folks, because time will tell.

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Aren’t We Too Eager To Throw Away The New To Make Way For The Newer?

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Verschillende handhelds bij elkaar: Game Boy A...

Verschillende handhelds bij elkaar: Game Boy Advance SP (2x), Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Sony PSP en Nokia 6630 Smart Phone. Foto zelf gemaakt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sometimes I feel we are too eager to throw away the new to make way for the newer.  The truth is I too have bought into the whole trend, and probably continuing to do so unless one day I wake up to find the world of technology has suddenly got a facelift.  You will know where I’m going with my ramble if you have already owned a smart phone.  Instead of trying to maximize the lifespan of our smart phones, we often decide to buy newer ones since newer ones usually come out with better and more features.  Sometimes, the smart phone designers, manufacturers, developers, promoters are too eager to roll out newer models of smart phone that encourage users to upgrade, therefore we often see smart phones that are working perfectly fine and only a year old or so find their future in the electronic recycling bins and dumpsters.

Perhaps, there isn’t anything wrong with how we are using our electronics today since at least we’re recycling our electronic wastes.  Nonetheless, I’ve often wondered many possible fictional outcomes if we had gone with the electronic usage trend which would partake on allowing the users to only upgrade and modularize their electronics.  Of course, it would not make sense to do this if upgrading and modularizing electronics are much more expensive than otherwise.  Plus, upgrading and modularizing really tiny electronic devices might be possible but rather almost impossible for regular users who just want to have something that works.  Upgrading and modularizing do sound like extra hard work, therefore people might not want to even think about such things.  Nonetheless, what if we do have commercial services that eager to provide upgrade and modularization of electronics for cheap — or at least to make it more affordable than just buying brand new?  We have seen how people love to upgrade their desktops, laptops, but why do most mobile products such as smart phone cannot be modularized?

Besides the reasons such as affordability, we also have concerns about electronic wastes and how electronic wastes might damage our environment and the health of the people who are actually working to get rid of the electronic wastes.  This begs the question of, will upgrade and modularization encourage a greener environment and less health hazardous working conditions for the workers who are responsible for getting rid of the electronic wastes?  I will not know, and I love to know.  In the end, I picture that one day we may have all in one product which can do everything pretty much — as in things that electronics do and not things that electronics don’t.  For example, we can’t expect electronics to breathe oxygen literally.  Even so, I fear electronics might one day breathe oxygen literally to power themselves, and such a day would be a sight to behold.

Back to the idea of all in one product (electronics) — perhaps such thing will be possible since it’s making more sense to not have to worry about carrying the weights, worrying about losing the things, and so much more if the all in one product turns out to be a robot, right?  I imagine a robot can be a companion, yet it can also be a smart phone, computer, maid, search engine, projector, and so much more.  With a robot following you everywhere you want it to, why would you want to carry a smart phone, a computer, a maid, a projector, and so on?  With a robot, you don’t even have to worry about misplacing it!  So, I think a natural progression of our electronic evolution, robotic industry has got to be the next biggest thing, yet!!!   Plus, it makes more sense to upgrade and modularize a robot than a smart phone.

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App A TV?

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Sometimes I fail to understand why Google and Yahoo and Apple have not yet gone beyond the tradition by producing apps that replicate Google TV and Apple TV and Yahoo TV experiences onto anything which has a screen!  This way users who have desktops and laptops and handheld devices can download such apps to begin experience live TV or whatever TV experiences that shall be, whether users have Windows or Mac!  I’m sure this way more users can connect to futuristic TV experiences, consequently making more businesses want to spend money on advertising since everyone is able to reach such media!  The idea of buying a set-top box is so outdated to me!  I’m not even want to mention about traditional cable!  App is the way, or even better — to standardize HTML5 and allow such technology to deliver the very same experiences!  What do you think?

Wishful Thinking: Don’t Miss That Report On That Thing In Twitter By 3D Avatars

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Here is another crazy idea that I wish I have time to research and to make it work!  I’m thinking of creating a 3D avatar or a group of 3D avatars, and these avatars are going to report to you about the Twitter world.  The concept is to have the 3D avatars utilizing Twitter API.  With proper algorithms in place, the AI of 3D avatars will know what stories on Twitter are more substantial than some, and these 3D avatars will report the stories to the rest of the world.

People who have a computer or flat screen TV can stream the program so they can watch 3D avatars reporting to them the stories that are matter most in the Twitter world.  In addition, people can download an app that is always appear as a live stream icon on their computer’s dock, and when hovering over it with a mouse pointer or selection highlight, they will see live streaming session of the 3D avatars, and when clicking on it they get to see the live stream of the 3D avatars.  In a way, 3D avatars of the Twitter world act as if they’re real reporters, but they’re reporting only what matter most for users who care about the viral things that go on inside the Twitter world.

After saying I wish I have time to make the project work, I’ve to be honest that even if I’ve the time to make it work, I fear I don’t have enough knowledge to make it work unless I suddenly understand how to do 3D animation, write algorithms on the par of algorithm experts, work with Twitter API, and put all the processes together cohesively so everything will work.  Don’t you see it’s a wishful thinking?  Anyone can make this happen, go for it!

Update:  Even better, the program can allow users to personalize how their versions of 3D Avatars will look like.

Replicating An Idea of Virtual Gaming To A Point Where The Participants May Perform Real World Applications

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People complain about how kids of today stay indoor too much, because they rather be playing video games than go out and do some sports.  Technology such as Kinect comes to the rescue by allowing kids to play video games in the more active way by using their body motions as the controllers for their virtual characters in the video games.  Nobody needs to go to the theaters as often as we all once would, because we have so called home theaters with Netflix and similar services to provide us with on demand entertainment.  Reading books and listening to music are just a click away or an iPad/Kindle away.  Driving somewhere is going to be more and more with driving an electric car.  Computers are keep on getting faster and more powerful and smarter.  One day, we will drive cars in a way that the cars will drive themselves, and we just have to be in the cars for being the passenger sake.  Of course there are so much more, and technology makes everything available for us humans in ways that if we go back into time such as 500 or 300 years ago — just talk about these things would get you burn on a stake!

So, OK, technology is great, but not all technology is smart!  What I mean is not about the technology itself is smart enough, but the purpose of the application is smart or not.  To be even more clear, just check out an example of a massive multiplayer online game, MathBlaster.com, and this video game is a perfect example of how technology can be smart.  Why?  MathBlaster isn’t about only being cool, but it can be cool and fun and educational at the same time.  Some educational games aren’t completed and smart, because those are only half-baked done.  Unlike them, MathBlaster is on the path of educating kids and adults alike in being smarter in math.  Who say learning math has to be a torture?  MathBlaster is transforming a learning process into a video game that so enchanting to a point that people do math without thinking math as a torture or a chore.  To know more about MathBlaster in details, you should check out “Online game makes math practice out of this world.”

Good idea should be reused effectively over and over again so the world can be a better one!  We all wants our people to be more educated, because the world is now a global community.  It’s a hot mess of competition in a way that students in China are now probably more equipped to better their economy with greater technology and science once they enter those various fields.  In US, we should strive to do better than others around the world, not because we want to look better, but because we want to do what is right for the Americans.  This is why video games such as MathBlaster can be replicated in various forms such as creating another video game that will make the process of learning physics fun.  Replicating that for chemistry, computer science, and so much more — we then all be having fun while learning.

Thinking of replicating such an awesome idea of MathBlaster to churn out real world purposes/applications, why not giving people a chance of solving real world applications?  Just an idea, and it’s pretty much a wishful thinking or a crazy idea.  Nonetheless, I think it’s an interesting idea that someone can pay real money for some people to solve real technical and scientific problems.  Even better, making the solving process into a video game community.  Imagine that through a video game, people can have real careers even though they are advancing their careers virtually.  I think this idea will be able to educate more people in real world applications, and at the same time enchanting people to do the works that real world companies want to have done themselves.  Maybe the whole process in itself can turn almost anyone into a scientist, mathematician, writer, engineer, and so on as long the people themselves are wanting to participate in the process.  I told you, it’s pretty whacky of an idea!

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