2010: How Your Grandparents Saw the Present

Ric Vatner | February 25, 2010

I would like to ask you what do you foresee in the next 50 or 100 years? Not from a technological point of view but rather how do you feel man will evolve “sociologically” over the next 50 to 100 years? Will all the problems we face today; economic, global warming, population and environmental, change us for the better or worse or not at all? Will we still be here in a hundred years?

Pay per View Video – Now a Reality

Ric Vatner | February 18, 2010

eSTV can now offer producers and video content owners the opportunity to put their films, for example:

Short films,
Movies,
Documentaries,
Training programmes (e.g. language lessons) or
How To videos etc
on eSTV, our TV style online magazine, on a pay per view basis. Putting them on eSTV will of course open them up to a larger audience

The owner of the content (i.e. of the video) will get paid every time someone watches the video because every video has a set fee to watch it. Another great feature is every video can have a different fee. So one film might cost $1.99 to watch and another $2.50 – each film can have its own price tag.

Of course the videos will be available to viewers world wide so the potential audience is huge.

Check Out Chick

Ric Vatner | November 6, 2009

I ducked out yesterday to buy some milk for the office and when I got to the cash register you can imagine my surprise when I was directed to a self serve register. Or maybe you can’t, I’m not a regular shopper so this was very new to me.

At first I was told I had a choice, I could use the self serve register or I could go to a regular check out with a much more experienced cashier than me. But when I looked at the long line of registers that are normally manned by cashiers I noticed that 75% of them were empty and the queue to use those that were left was rather long.

Super Powers go to War – Next Year

Ric Vatner | July 13, 2009

After eyeing each other off for the last two years and fighting little skirmishes like the one to become Facebook’s best friend (won by Microsoft) Google has finally weighed up its opponent and decided it is ready to declare war.

Well what Google actually declared is that it will declare war, next year. We have officially entered the pre fight period ……