Kiwis could have the answer to internet content woes

There is a way forward to charge for content as TV and the internet collide, Aspiring Software claims.

Aspiring Software product PageQ Browser is an invention that adds a player toolbar (play, pause, stop, fast forward and rewind) to the browser. The toolbar has a camera icon to capture pages into a Q sequence or playlist of web pages.

Like iTunes, but for web pages, PageQ Browser allows users to create Qs of web content for any format such as video, music, image, flash and web pages can be captured into a Q.  

Major internet players such as Microsoft, TiVo, Google, Apple and News Corporation are in an uproar about how TV and the internet will be delivered and how to charge for content.

In the US, President Barack Obama and regulators are keen to legislate that internet content must be available through home TVs.

PageQ software designer Wayne Parker said, “let’s say a newspaper creates a public or private Q that requires payment. The newspaper updates the pages each day, so whenever a subscriber references the same Q (on computer or TV via set top box), they see the new content.”

Mr Parker said a model along the lines of 99c iTunes subscription per Q where “lots pay almost nothing versus a few paying a lot” suits content providers and users.

PageQ business director Alistair Munro said, “in the medium term we are looking to partner with a major browser, search engine, social networking, social bookmarking or internet media company in order to broaden the community of Q creating and sharing users.”