SingleView was an idea I had whilst I was living in San Francisco. It struck me that there was no easy way anyone could work out which was the best online dating site for him/her. Rather you'd really only find out if there were profiles you might be interested in once you've paid for a subscription. Increasingly we see aggregators or comparison sites making it easier to decide where to spend your money so why not the same for dating? That's why we created SingleView. The great thing about the internet is that it provides almost limitless choices and data - and now SingleView can help you identify which dating site is likley to work best for you. Need more persuasion? It's free to use as we get paid by the dating sites when we identify the best dating site for a user and they sign up.

Hulu continues to grow by leaps and bounds in the US and is looking to expand internationally. What I found particularly interesting is despite spending $millions on TV and superbowl ads they don't have a marketing team. Rather Jason Kilar/CEO suggests if the product isn't compelling enough in its own right - they have a bigger problem.

I haven't posted for a while but when I read this morning that Warner is launching a service that allows you to download or order films from it's back catalogue I just had to find a forum to vent. The first blunder is that the service is only available in the US - people watch and enjoy movies all over the world folks! The second is the pricing is just wrong at $19.95 and downloads at $14.95. Finally there are only 150 titles available!!!!

Making out of print or niche titles available on the internet is a great idea but this can only be characterised as a half baked attempt. The guys at Warner must have missed the fact that there are over a billion downloads a year on the popular file sharing network Mininova and of these 60% are films and TV shows....I wonder how transactions Warner is planning for it's 150 movies priced at $14.95 this year???

The film and music companies may still believe in the economies of scarcity - but what we've seen in the real world is that geographic restrictions or extortionate pricing pushes people to piracy. The way to make digital distribution viable on a commercial basis is to make content widely available, easy to use and ad supported. We're starting to see the future with comapnies like Hulu and iPlayer in the TV and film space and Spotify and desitouch in the music space. So i won't be using the new Warner Archive service....doh! I couldn't if I wanted to anyway 'cos I live in the UK.