---
title: "BBC Mobile, Business Models 2.0, Internet TV"
date: 2005-04-14
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# BBC Mobile, Business Models 2.0, Internet TV

A daily shot of Web 2.0 news. Each item will have a main link, one or two lines of commentary from me, and views of the story from other bloggers (if available and if I have time). I’m still fiddling with the format…

## BBC unveils five-year mobile strategy

[NMA reports](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://www.nma.co.uk/Document.aspx?did=5e2240a7-d8f7-4d5b-a8c7-66a198dfb9dd) on the BBC’s five-year strategy for mobile: “The strategy is centred around mobile browsing, establishing the mobile version of bbc.co.uk as important to the Corporation as the main Web site, moving to both richer on-demand and user-generated content.” ([via PaidContent.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2005_04_13.shtml#013166))

*My comment:* This is the first time I’ve seen a major media corporation put mobile offerings on a par with its website.

## Return of old Web business models

[Andrew Madden in MIT Tech Review](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/wo/wo_041305madden.asp?p=2) reviews some Web 1.0 business plans that have re-emerged successfully in Web 2.0. He cites online groceries and “the ‘verticalization’ of search and locally targeted online ad models.”

*Views:* – [alarm:clock follows up](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2005/04/web_20_another.html): “One of the more striking aspects of the Web 2.0 is the familiarity of its business models – we’ve seen many of them before. Some of the early models died off with good reason, but others needed time to ripen.”

*My comment:* Perhaps the difference this time round is that the underlying technologies (broadband, web services, browsers, etc) are now mature enough to support the Web as a business platform. Time to dust off that e-commerce-wap-portal business plan from 1999!

## Internet TV is Open and Independent

[Participatory Culture Foundation](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://participatoryculture.org/): “Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone can broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology.”

*My comment:* Sounds like a mix between [Our Media](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://www.ourmedia.org/) and [TiVo](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062347/http://www.tivo.com/) – they’re building a “desktop video player application” and a “video publishing tool”. Yet another sign that the Internet is where media will roam free in the 21st century.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bbc_mobile_busi.php))*