Robert Andrews, senior international editor at paidContent, a Web site covering paid content business models and technologies, said Piano's biggest coup was corralling the publishers.
The proliferation of unbundled content business models has benefited consumers, by providing access to products and services at a significantly reduced cost.
The question here is after years of being slapped around by government regulators is CMCSA thinking about making radical changes to its content delivery business model?
It's also clearly differentiated from sites such as Quora and Ask.com because of this personal, paid-content marketplace business model, Kurtzig says.
Although Veoh was focused on premium content in its business model, the company also faced lawsuits from content owners for how it handled it, specifically related to content uploaded by regular users.
Though, blockchain experiments aside, Unilever seems rather less publicly clear on exactly what it thinks tech giants should do to vanquish the toxic content their business models have (inadvertently or otherwise) been financially incentivizing.
Ultimately though it's unsurprising that big content owners want to control their content and existing business model instead of exploring models that are radical, new and in theory less profitable.
He was savage about the past and current state of newspapers, in terms of both content and their business model.
"I think what the untethered Guitar Hero does is it maybe equals the playing field a little bit more and gives you leverage with first parties on downloadable content and the business model… [Y]ou should expect to see many of our products to be playable on the television independent of a console".
When the pubsubhubub boys get through with their march across Google Reader, Feedburner, SUP, WordPress, TypePad, and every other ping server still creaking along, it won't make much sense to have yet another version of content stripped of business model, comments, and analytics.
