Comments on: Will Making MashUps Ever Make You Money? http://1timstreet.com/blog/will-making-mashups-ever-make-you-money/ Producing & Monetizing Web & Mobile Video Through Social Media Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:39:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alec McNayr http://1timstreet.com/blog/will-making-mashups-ever-make-you-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Alec McNayr Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:58:00 +0000 http://1timstreet.com/blog/will-making-mashups-ever-make-you-money/#comment-1351 Great stuff -- I think it's rare to find a mashup artist who is really a pop culture examiner. Those are the people that can consistently "mash up" content and continue to have it be meaningful. Otherwise, videos seem to just be one-offs... comedy groups that rip something one time in order to get some exposure. But perhaps there's a serial-ness in that....<br/><br/>I feel like DJ Girl Talk is a great example. He probably falls under the "clever mashups increase your requests for speaking/DJ engagements" model. Wired did a great multimedia presentation of one of his songs: <a HREF="http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/pl_music_1609" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">35 Samples in 255 Seconds</a>. Great stuff — I think it’s rare to find a mashup artist who is really a pop culture examiner. Those are the people that can consistently “mash up” content and continue to have it be meaningful. Otherwise, videos seem to just be one-offs… comedy groups that rip something one time in order to get some exposure. But perhaps there’s a serial-ness in that….

I feel like DJ Girl Talk is a great example. He probably falls under the “clever mashups increase your requests for speaking/DJ engagements” model. Wired did a great multimedia presentation of one of his songs: 35 Samples in 255 Seconds.

]]> By: Todd http://1timstreet.com/blog/will-making-mashups-ever-make-you-money/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Todd Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:53:00 +0000 http://1timstreet.com/blog/will-making-mashups-ever-make-you-money/#comment-1350 "...Are there any other ways that you can think of making money with mashups?"<br/><br/>A perpetual question asked by all the Vulture Capitalists.<br/><br/>Suggestion: Narrow down and/or better define what you, Tim, mean when you say "mash-up", as written in the post it is too generic.<br/><br/>Mash-up of open web API data with your own unique content? Or tie a physical device to multiple cloud services?<br/><br/>There are something like 900 Twitter mash-ups:<br/><br/>http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps<br/><br/>...but only one successfully made it to the Apple iPhone App Store. If you are already using the Twitter iPhone app, as aquired through the app store, I propose that it the answer to your question.<br/><br/>( At least until Android comes out ) “…Are there any other ways that you can think of making money with mashups?”

A perpetual question asked by all the Vulture Capitalists.

Suggestion: Narrow down and/or better define what you, Tim, mean when you say “mash-up”, as written in the post it is too generic.

Mash-up of open web API data with your own unique content? Or tie a physical device to multiple cloud services?

There are something like 900 Twitter mash-ups:

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps

…but only one successfully made it to the Apple iPhone App Store. If you are already using the Twitter iPhone app, as aquired through the app store, I propose that it the answer to your question.

( At least until Android comes out )

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