digital media
Google Loves Me Toooo!
My boy Shawn may have gotten his first, but Google loves me too! I just got a pretty cool digital picture frame from them for Christmas. Last year they sent us the power travel kit with all kinds of laptop accessories that I still use. This one I think will gather dust or be re-gifted!!!
Tower Records -> Out of business
The tower records by my house is going out of business… To me it’s shocking that it still even exists anywhere. You can duplicate the entire Tower Records store in a kiosk at this point. Have digital catalogs that people can access through touch screens, and have production facilities inside the kiosk that burns on [...]
Ad-tech then Hawaii
Was @ AD-TECH all last week, what a blast that was. Tons of people, lots of good energy and ideas, very 1999. I saw too many companies with overblown mediocre ideas that will be gone in a year or so, but to me that is a good sign of enthusiasm. Plus I won an ipod. [...]
Jason Calacanis Bashes DRM
Just watched an awesome video of Jason Calacanis going on a rant about DRM, Apple’s FairPlay in particular. He is a smart guy and therefore expounds on the obvious points, like how no content company is going to license their products without some kind of digital locks. He also makes this great point:
“I bought a [...]
Another Weiss Interview
Just posted another interview with Michael Weiss, CEO of Morpheus. They are expecting big news from the Supreme Court tomorrow morning, so stay tuned to Zeropaid for minute by minute updates.
gnutella paid links and updates
I have often times raved about google’s adsense. It is hands down the best solution I have ever seen to online advertising, from both an advertiser’s perspective and a publisher’s point of view. Switching gears (hang on I’m getting somewhere), file sharing programs have historically struggled to generate revenue, walking the fine line between pissing [...]
Selling False Information
Had a conversation with a writer from Forbes.com who was curious about the stats of online music services. We chatted back and forth and she was asking why WinMX was so popular. When I responded that it wasn’t, she told me the data she had bought from NPD indicated the top 5 were WinMX, iTunes, [...]
updates, p2p revolution, bittorrent, padres
Woke up this morning to my datacenter calling me telling me they were watching my power circuit melting. Cool. So I had to go to the datacenter (my favorite place), power down 5 customers boxes (some 15), switch to a different circuit, and bring the machines back up. Of course, Murphy being the bitch he [...]
Indy Custom (Random?) Radio
Just caught Ian Clarke’s new project, Indy. In his words,
“We are just about to go live with another project I have been working on called “Indy”. Indy is designed to provide both a new way for artists to find new fans, and a new way for fans to find new music and artists that they [...]
Michael Weiss, Morpheus CEO interview
I was met Michael Weiss on April Fools day, no joke. He was on the panel right after mine @ Digital Hollywood, and I got to chat with him a bit inbetween. For those of you who don’t know, Mike is a very influential guy in the p2p/file sharing space, having once hoisted the title [...]
