I think the important message here is DoCoMo will collect payments for sites
outside the i-menu.
Previously DoCoMo only collected payment from sites of premium i-menu
members. Just one of the requirements of premium membership is offering a 24
hour call centre - prohibitive for most small content providers.
Kyle
X-9 DESIGN LAB
http://www.X-9.com
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1,480 official sites...that i-menu portal is getting a bit crowded. Saw ads
on the train last night for Hello Kitty : Your Personal Secretary, and
Keeping Tropical Fish on Your Phone, but both required going through about
6 or so menu layers on the i-menu (no, I wasn't tempted)
So this intuitive assumption that everyone makes about official sites
getting more traffic than katte sites...does everyone on this list really
think it stands up to more than the most superficial scrutiny?
Every time I see some "journalist" (usually overseas based?) telling us
that people would never bother going to katte sites because well, you have
to actually TYPE IN THE URL on that TINY KEYPAD, well... let's just say I
don't feel like complimenting them on their powers of deep analysis.
Anyone out there heard of a HYPERLINK??? (y'know BT owns the patent ;-)
Or links in EMAIL?
Or search engines (Oh New!, whose figure people always quote without credit)
Or even those Giga-code things (is that what they're called?)
Or even BOOKMARKS?????
From what I've seen lately, there's plenty of traffic going to katte sites.
What about D2C's Toku Suru Menu? 350,000 PV/day...not exactly
earth-shattering for a top level menu item.
Other opinions please?
SW
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Received on Tue Mar 6 11:55:51 2001