Friday, October 17, 2008
BREAKING: Facebook May or May Not Launch Music Service
Looks like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is suffering from a bit of Freudian MySpace Envy. Now that the rival social network has launched what MySpace CEO Chris Wolfe likes to describe as “a mega-music experience,” Facebook is said to be looking for a foothold in the digital music business as well.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
In Related News, 22 Percent of Students Are Also Unaware of the Current Economic Climate
Nearly 8 percent of high school students own an iPhone. And 22 percent of those who don’t, hope to buy one in the next six months. This according to Piper Jaffray’s 16th bi-annual Teen MP3 Player and Online Music Survey, which found that Apple’s cachet among teen consumers is as solid as it ever was, economic collapse be damned.
iTunes Lives to Sell Another 5 Billion Songs
Not that it would ever have happened anyway, but Apple will not be shutting down the iTunes Store in protest over increased royalty rates paid to songwriters and publishers for CDs and digital music downloads.
1982 Called. It Wants Its Digital Music Distribution Model Back
Overall CD sales are plummeting after eight years of unflagging erosion. Digital music sales now account for 15 percent of recording industry’s revenues worldwide and 30 percent in the United States, according to recent data from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. And those numbers are climbing faster than ever. Consider: This past June, Apple said it has sold some five billion songs on its iTunes Store. Clearly, physical media are giving way to the Internet as a means of music distribution. What better time, then, to reinvent the music industry’s business model for physical media, as SanDisk hopes to do with its new microSD memory card album format?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Guitar Hero: World Store
With analysts predicting Activision Blizzard will generate $1.38 billion in profits during its first financial year, Bobby Kotick, CEO of the new company, can perhaps be forgiven his grandiose proclamations. After all, there’s little doubt that the pure-play online and console game publisher will be the world’s most profitable. That said, it’s hard to believe that Activision Blizzard can launch a “successful competitor” to Apple’s iTunes music service through its Guitar Hero franchise as Kotick claims.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Real to Apple: From Hell’s Heart, I Stab at Thee!
In a 2004 email to Steve Jobs, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser asked the Apple CEO to consider a “tactical alliance” with his company. License us your Fairplay digital-rights management system, allow our customers to play their digital music collections on the iPod, wrote Glaser, and we’ll make the iPod our primary device for the RealNetworks store and for RealPlayer software.
Welcome to “Jobs✭Mart”
If the recording industry thinks Steve Jobs has been a bear to negotiate with in the past, wait until it gets a load of him now.
Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes Store has become the No. 2 music retailer in the states, according to a new study by the NPD Group. It’s second only to Wal-Mart and, if [...]
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
