April 2008
1 post
I blogged about JetBlue and now JetBlue is following me on Twitter….hmmmmmmmmmm
March 2008
14 posts
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Adotas: Alternative Media Spending Going...
The sputtering economy has failed to stymie spending on alternative media, according to a report from PQ Media. In 2007, spending on alternative media – such as social networks, mobile and interactive advertising – grew by an eye-popping 22% to $73.43 billion in 2007 and it is expected to grow by 20.2% in 2008 to $88.24 billion.Spending on alternative media – which is slated to represent 26.6% of...
SonyBMG is retarded: Planning a subscription... →
Oh my god. I’m flabbergasted. $12 for access to Sony/BMG’s music? With Sony’s history of questionable business moves, this one ranks right up there with the Minidisc, Rootkit, Memory Stick and others. Proprietary content is so 1990. Sony, get a clue, your customers don’t care if the music they love comes from Sony, they just care that its the music they want to hear.
Found this song on a compilation called...
Adobe: We Need Flash On The iPhone - Silicon... →
Steve’s covert plea for Flash compatibility seems to be paying off. Adobe sees the near term benefit despite the iPhone’s 1% penetration of the mobile market. That 1% has translated to an 85% mobile browsing share. Despite it’s success, I don’t see Apple attaining more than a 5% share as long as they keep their exclusive with AT&T. Does anybody else feel like an...
20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time ::... →
I can't believe more people aren't talking about...
This is groundbreaking. This is revolutionary. On Techmeme there are only a few links. Rich media ad serving from Google: http://www.google.com/support/admanager/publisher/bin/topic.py?topic=13161 They are changing the game, yet again. Just as Google Analytics did. They are going to put many of the niche ad serving players in a world of hurt. I have a sneaking suspicion that a minority of...
"Tribes" and the "Seinfeld Curve". Seth Godin put...
I am in love with this speech Seth Godin gave. These excerpts explain beautifully WHY the NIN model works, and in short order. Important to keep a dialogue:…The next one is my biggest one, and what started me down this whole path which is, if I asked you for the name and address of your 50,000 best customers, could you give it to me? Do you have any clue? Then what happens every day is...
Music Valuation 101: NIN creates users out of fans
Music business listen up: Build value and your customers will take the bait. Trent Reznor has just opened a new era in his band’s history. When Trent Reznor became a free agent, breaking free from his multi-album deal with Interscope, many in the industry waited breathlessly for him to make his next move. After his experiment with Saul Williams yielded mixed results, his project, Ghosts...
Hahaha this made me laugh.
Someone needs to tell this to my Grandma… “Atlantic City is one of the most disgusting places in the world,” said Sean Kalish, a 26-year-old lawyer who visits the casinos to play poker. He was standing in a slender peacoat waiting for the Atlantic City bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Wednesday. “It’s like Las Vegas got drunk and slept with South Jersey and this is their bastard...
What Stanford Learned Building Facebook Apps
Dr. BJ Fogg and Dave McClure taught a class last semester at Stanford on Building Facebook Applications. In 10 weeks, the 80 students had created 50+ applications and in total had over 20 Million installs - with 5 having more than 1 million users. At today’s Graphing Social Patterns conference, BJ and his two teacher assistants shared 10 tips they learned from the experience. Here they are:...
“The study showed that the volume of blog posts led to future sales, but that...”
– NYU Study from Oct 2007 via hypebot Just sayin’, music blogs are neat… :) (via fascinated)
Interview with myself and Abby over at...
Abby and I were interviewed for the first in a 12 part interview series for Darren Herman’s “CEO and Founders Series”, a special collective leading up to the release of Darren’s new book Coloring Outside the Lines to be released on March 12th. For those of you who don’t know Darren, he’s an entrepreneur himself and the founder of the in-game advertising...
February 2008
27 posts
Deal Journal: Sprint Nextel: Officially a 'Deal...
Oh that hurts, Sprint. Despite aggressive pricing cuts yesterday that now place them as the lowest priced carrier - undercutting even T-Mobile, the WSJ has a new story up today detailing something we armchair economists already knew: the Sprint-Nextel merger is a failure. The company yesterday reported a net loss of $29.45 billion, thats more than the company is worth, they have a market cap...
What happens when you can't count past four? →
nostrich: The New Yorker article I linked to earlier made brief mention of the Mundurukú tribe, that Dehaene and Pierre Pica studied recently (2004), The Mundurukú … have words for numbers only up to five. (Their word for five literally means “one hand.”) Even these words seem to be merely approximate labels for them: a Mundurukú who is shown three objects will sometimes say there are three,...
Study Sees Digital Music Shakeout
“London-based research firm Point Topic said that, in a global sector that has more than 498 digital-download services operating in more than 40 markets, digital music services with robust business models are expected to survive by being acquired by the major digital music players while the weak ones collapse. Among the major digital music companies Point Topic said are expected to embark on...
The Top 10 Music Social Networks | Independent... →
dotboomboom now formatted for the iPhone and iPod...
Thanks to a new service from mofuse dotboomboom is now automatically formatted for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you happen to be browsing this site from a mobile device, you don’t have to do anything! The formatted page will automatically be delivered. For more info about mofuse check out Techcrunch’s coverage here
12 Useful Email Addresses
12. wav@koolwire.com - attach wav to get a mp3 11. mp3@koolwire.com - attach mp3 to get a wav 10. pdf@koolwire.com - You have an Office document or a picture on your computer or mobile phone that you wish to convert into a PDF file. Just email that file an email attachment to the above address and it will soon return to your Inbox as a PDF file. [koolwire review] 9. ..@photos.flickr.com -...
The "Big Four" are making a mistake by anointing...
Several are reporting news that “Myspace” is the word of the day of for the big 4 labels who look to be putting together a streaming JV of their own. From what I hear it sounds much like Fox and NBC’s Hulu, with Myspace as the independent party controlling ad sales and distribution for a new syndicatable music player. Big problems abound for this one: For one, if in fact the...
I signed up Haystack for Mosso today. Cloud...
In the internet infrastructure scene, “cloud computing“ is all the rage these days and for good reason: it provides the ability for an application developer to scale a service from its embryonic beginnings to overnight popularity without the headaches of server expansion and optimization, all while keeping costs manageable and usage based. I have to say that after signing up...
Americanz iz skared of nanos
Shocking, really, that in a recent University of Wisconsin survey of attitudes towards science, 70% of Americans who probably have never heard the word “nanotechnology” before regard the practice as “morally unacceptable.” It’s quite hard to believe the results of this survey as credible, and yet more humorous that the UW professor responsible would try to defend...
WatchMe testing Seesmic. Be my friend?
A baby is born
I created my first widget using our little code library. Its not the prettiest, I’m still learning how to smooth images, yada yada. It works, though. I’m proud of me.
I want to eat here
Tre Dici Steak, 128 W 26th St, 2nd Floor, between 6th and 7th; 212.243.2085 Enter the unmarked door and take the elevator up to NY’s first meat-easy: a plushed-out, leather and marble sleeve serving high-end brown liquor (Johnny Walker Blue, Laphroaig, etc) to compliment everything from NY Strip to kobe beef ravioli. Feds be damned, all cuts will be served on plates instead of teacups....
Hadn't heard of Danoo until today
I was in a fast food restaurant on Chambers Street today called Bon Bon and there was a little flat screen connected to a service called Danoo. It was pulling in feeds from Flickr, Youtube and a few other web services. Nice alternative to Ecast.
I taught myself Flash today...
I’ll post the fruits of my labor soon. Being a Photoshop fan since my days in noXcuse - the palette based controls were somewhat familiar. There’s a huge amount of open source actionscript out there. Once I got the hang of it, it was pretty smooth. Still want to learn how to animate but it’s a start…
LVLT kicks my ass.
Buying low and selling high is for pussies. LVLT: 2.85 -0.15 (-5.00%) - Level 3 Communications, Inc.
Apple planning iPhone and iPod touch price cuts? -... →
New Haystack Widget
Take a look at Haystack’s latest campaign, running in partnership with Groovevolt: http://tinyurl.com/2ohr3z
January 2008
4 posts
Haystack launches campaign with Rollingstone and...
We launched another campaign today. This time with Rollingstone/Ford. The creative is below. Thanks to all that made this happen!
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Is Yahoo creating an open music platform?
Is Yahoo up to something big in music? If indeed my theory is true, Yahoo may be making some very smart strides in the online music ecosystem. According to Ian Rogers of Yahoo music, they’re taking all format and retailing bets off the table, instead opting for an interconnected music web unseen as of yet. It sounds to me like Ian is talking about creating a platform ala Facebook and Open...
I'm a little confused where to go now
So with Sony’s new anti-DRM policy and corresponding deal with Amazon, that means that I have to hit up Amazon to get my new Sony releases. Ok, cool, Amazon is nice, but it doesn’t integrate as nicely with my iPod and besides…BitTorrent is way cheaper. If I’m confused imagine how the lesser idiot feels.
Album Sales Drop Despite Digital's Rise →
In the “No Way, Really?!” department comes this. Honestly, did you really think the shiny disc population would go up?
December 2007
4 posts
Up at 4 AM and I found this last...
“We’re not interested in protecting large corporations and executives and their...”
Goodbye Wordpress
So long Wordpress, Dotboomboom has moved on. For all those who loved the old posts, sorry..they’re gone now.