There have been a ton of comments online about the Netflix price changes. Many of these comments are along the lines of “the postage costs are hurting Netflix”. I’m going to take a different view and point more at the streaming business. We’ll break this into two sections, delivery costs and content acquisition costs.
“…in startups you have to assume many roles, but it’s necessary, it teaches you to think globally and not be focused on only your code.”
A year ago the first half of my pitch was explaining how the second screen is an interesting place to be. The market is moving towards us fast.
I love it when our competitors pay a lot of money for market research.
This is a simple mash up of GetGlue’s widgets and the Synchronize.TV recognition API. Basically it creates a GetGlue widget that checks you into whatever your TV is tuned to without having to go through a menuing system.
Will the inexpensive dongle be an important transitional bridge as TV changes? I wrestle with this question too.
