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You are correct, there is no innovation. i was on a panel at a show in Miami last year and this was the topic. The moderator was from livejasmin and he held forth that their popunders were "innovative" I interrupted and said no they arent, they are fucking annoying...and I got an ovation.
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying but in fairness- see below:
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but lets hit the high points here
if this biz were really innovative like we once were we would have videoplayers that overlay the users login and ip onto the video
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I believe it's possible to do this it's just that no one that I know of has implemented it. I could have swore I remember Robbie or some programmer or other person talking about how they had this developed.
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these players would play the new MPEG-DASH standard and piracy would be greatly thwarted.....so would encoding multiple standards for video streams
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People seem pretty happy with streaming and downloadable .mp4 nowadays. I haven't heard anyone talking about MPEG-Dash.
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ccbill would have direct deposit
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And an interface that doesn't look like it was developed in 1996.
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Ccbill and netbilling would have jumped right out with wordpress integration plugins
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I believe any biller can be used with Wordpress as it can with any CMS. You don't specifically need a plugin to do that. I have Zombaio working with Wordpress on one of my sites.
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we wouldnt be giving away what we should be selling
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Agreed, although many are doing a lot of both- giving away, willingly or not- and selling.
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The main problem is we got lazy and all the real technical guys went elsewhere or retired leaving a bunch of empty suits and scumbags banging cards and annoying the customers with intrusive advertising tactics.
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Those elements have always been involved in this business, however most of the bigger brands that the fans know and like are indeed running good businesses. They have to to get anyone's trust.