Archive for the ‘marketing’ Category
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Nokia's done something intriguing here in terms of marketing. Not sure where this is going exactly, but it's interesting.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Exciting times. Right on the heels of our Open Mobile event, the first Google Android handset has been released on T Mobile - the HTC Dream, announced just this morning in NYC.
And it's wi-fi (!!!)
Now if only I had an in over at HTC, or if a Canadian provider had ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
This? Oh yeah, we already did that.
& it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
"Expensive phones are like an enormous test phase, but budget phones are the true launch pad for a mobile technology."
Well said. Read the rest at All About Symbian. It's exciting to see the trickle of smart phone functionality into lower end handsets. Perhaps Nokia's actually been listening to its participatory ...
Posted in appropriation, critical constructivism, design, marketing, mobile, political economy | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Survey results paid for by Texas-based company AppTrigger (the study itself was conducted by LM Research & Marketing) suggest that UK mobile operators could be doing much more to promote adoption of advanced mobile services among their subscribers. The data purportedly support the conclusion that
mobile phone operators are largely locked ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
I hope I haven't used this Roxy Music song as a post title before...
While assembling my upcoming conference papers, I've been twiddling with this blog on the side in lieu of regular updates (well, alright, I've also been focused on the dupobs release schedule - you can listen to ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started.
Why so, asks the ...
Posted in blogs, indie, internet, labels, marketing, music, online communities, social bookmarking, social networks, statistics, taste, technology | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
There's a pretty good yarn in last Wednesday's Vancouver Courier about Scratch Records, an independent music institution in Vancouver for 20 years now. For those of us old enough to recall Scratch's origins as the-little-indie-store-that-could below street level in Gastown, it's great, and inspiring to see this label/shop/distributor steadfastly navigating ...
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
OK, I was going to take a lot of time and write a measured and considered manifesto, but in the spirit of the impulsivity, that, according to my friend Jason, haunts, and characterizes the blogosphere, I've decided to have a little blurt and then go enjoy the blistering West Coast ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
A recent story in the New York Times about the Jonathan Coulton phenomenon (remember - he's the guy who posted a song a week on his blog for a year and so launched an infamous viral campaign interacting with fans who made videos for his songs, and who even recorded ...
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