tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post4874563880790111032..comments2024-03-08T04:48:15.897-05:00Comments on globallistic: Music Mashups as a Businessjherskowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15797190582674008000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-59443194926050610222007-05-18T06:58:00.000-05:002007-05-18T06:58:00.000-05:00Great point on the terms of service. That then le...Great point on the terms of service. That then leads these guys down a path were they strike commerical agreements with each of the "sources" that gives them guaranteed quality of service and professional grade webservices. I'm assuming that Last.fm, YouTube and others would gladly trade that for a percentage of ad revenue on the mashup site. That doesn't enable these tertiary aggregators to make "money for nothing" anymore but still provides them no risk and only upside.jherskowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15797190582674008000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697838.post-55690939834665581012007-05-18T04:46:00.000-05:002007-05-18T04:46:00.000-05:00I like music mashups too, but there are 3 problems...I like music mashups too, but there are 3 problems trying to make money from them. <BR/><BR/>- terms of service - most web services providers state that only non-commercial use of the web service is allowed. As soon as you scatter around those ads, you are at risk of having your access to a web service cut off.<BR/><BR/>- performance - most web service providers limit the frequency of calls that you can make. Amazon and last.fm both indicate that you should call their services no more frequently than one per second. This leaves you with a site that won't scale. You'll have to serve up stale, cached data, or you will have very slow updates or you will have to violate the TOS and risk getting shutdown. <BR/><BR/>- reliability - web services are provided without any warranty as to their reliability. With a mashup built on top of multiple webservices, the chances that at any one time, one of the services will be offline.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I've seen lots of music 2.0 mashups, but I haven't seen anyone make money from them.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150347809993077119noreply@blogger.com