Talk of Many Things – Page 8 – Personal Blog of Ketharaman Swaminathan

Musk Twitter Will Take Per Article Sales To The Next Level

5 July 2023

In Why Publishers Don't Sell Individual Articles, we saw how readers want à la carte (buy individual articles) but publishers offer only buffet (all-you-can-eat subscriptions). (While this post can be…

Seven Reasons Why Resellers Are Still Around In Today’s Digital Age

28 June 2023

It might seem ironical that the IT industry, the torchbearer of digital transformation, uses reseller networks in today's digital world instead of selling to its customers directly. As we saw…

Economic Times Publishes My Take On Play Store v. App Developers Controversy

21 June 2023

Google Play Store provides the following services to Android app developers: Listing Discovery Distribution Commerce platform Training Google does not charge any fixed fees for these services. Like most companies…

Why Publishers Don’t Sell Individual Articles

14 June 2023

When it comes to per article sales, everybody points to ready demand, takes supply for granted, and focuses on the fulfilment, mainly micropayments. This has been going on for years…

Are Resellers Required In Today’s Digital Age?

7 June 2023

You read about a product on Twitter or Product Hunt. You click through and visit the product's website. You watch a 2-minute explainer video. You like what you see. You…

Wet Ink Signature v. Digital Signature

24 May 2023

Wet Ink Signature is the conventional way of issuing consent by signing on paper with a pen. Digital Signature is the modern way of consenting digitally with a DSC (digital…

Six Step Plan For ONDC To Replicate The Success of UPI

17 May 2023

Open Network for Digital Commerce seeks to increase the penetration of digital commerce in India by enabling companies to plug into its open and interoperable ecommerce protocol and thereby complete…

Seven Money-Making Schemes That Sound Too Good To Be True – But Are True

10 May 2023

According to the old adage, "If it's too good to be true, it's a scam". In times of rampant fraud, like we're seeing in the crypto world now, many people…

Calling BS On The Meme “Banks Privatize Profits And Socialize Losses”

1 May 2023

I first heard the meme "Banks privatize profits and socialize losses" soon after some banks were bailed out during the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-8 in USA. The narrative was,…

Go Figure: Contradictions – Part 2

26 April 2023

This blog post features ten more contradictions / ironies / disconnects aka #GoFigure. 1. There are tons of free credit cards with rewards, deferred payment, fraud protection, etc. Debit card…