Hmm, I would really dig something like that!
So lazy to walk downstairs if I am too hot or cold. Would love to reach for my phone and quickly change the temperature setting remotely, that would rock. Sonos built an iPhone controller, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be seeing apps for thermostats.
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November 26th, 2008 at 12:56 pm by Ari Shohat
iPhone application for your Thermostat
| Technology | 4 Comments |
August 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pm by Ari Shohat
Global Challenges Confronting YOUR Tomorrow
| Business, Economy, Technology | 0 Comments |
I am going to paste this post from Umair Haque below. It’s just about full length, but it’s important to get the ideas out there:
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Today’s corporate picture looks darker and bleaker than ever. And especially among those of us in our 20s and 30s, the feeling that business as usual cannot go on is growing.
But [...]
August 4th, 2008 at 1:22 pm by Ari Shohat
Mercora aka Social.fm has closed
| Business, Marketing, Music, Streaming, Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
Reports are on the web about Social.fm – the word is that it has closed shop.
I’ve heard of Mercora before, of course, but have not actually used it. It was supposed to be one of those music discovery services. Recently Mercora re-branded as Social.fm, going into the me-too game of trying to be a social [...]
July 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm by Ari Shohat
Stalk Twitter with Summize, Just like with Google Alerts
| Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
In the past you may have read my post about how you can digitally stalk someone using Google Alerts. In fact, I recommend you do that to someone, or some thing or brand, regularly in your competitive field.
Today I’d like to share a similar tool with you – it’s Summize.com
Summize lets you search public Twitter comments. [...]
May 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am by Ari Shohat
The Freemium Model and the Music Industry
| Business, Marketing, Music, Technology | 1 Comment |
The Freemium business model is when you give away roughly 99% of your service away for free, but charge the rest of the folks for upgrades to some Premium features or services.
The free portion of the service can still be monetized, via ads for example, but it’s still free to be used by anyone.
I’ve been [...]
April 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm by Ari Shohat
Acceleration of The Music Business Online
| Music, Streaming, Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
On Friday Fred from “A VC” blog had a great post entitled Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business.
Here are a few juicy snippets below. I share most sentiments and continue to believe the music and streaming space will continue to accelerate towards numerous niche services.
Having ceded the file based music opportunity [...]
March 26th, 2008 at 9:59 am by Ari Shohat
Some Notes on Streaming Bandwidth Pricing
| Business, Streaming, Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
I am directing this post to my streaming media colleagues.
As some of you may know, one of my other side businesses is SteadyHost.com – we do racked servers and sell a great mix of bandwidth at reasonable prices.
Let me tell you something you probably already know – there are retail prices that companies list on [...]
March 25th, 2008 at 9:12 am by Ari Shohat
New Ideas vs Immediate Approval
| Business, P2A, Technology | 0 Comments |
The following quote via PMARCA blog:
Finally, some entrepreneurs have emotional resistance to pursuing a strategy that does not meet with immediate approval from press, analysts, and other entrepreneurs.
This is worth watching carefully — if everyone agrees right up front that whatever you are doing makes total sense, it probably isn’t a new and radical [...]
