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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 [...]
| 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 [...]
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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. [...]
| 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
| Streaming, Technology, Web | 1 Comment |
Via this full post in RAIN by their very own Ralph Sledge:
Apple’s iPhone SDK (software developer kit) — recently released and highly-anticipated — unfortunately has several limitations which make the possibility of an Internet radio application less compelling than many had previously though. The biggest: initially, it looked as if it wasn’t designed to allow [...]
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