Archive for the ‘marketing’ Category

Making Money in Music: a Poll and a Crowdstorm

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

I've created a twitter poll (something I should be doing more regularly) asking a question of central importance to this blog, to my life, my creative pursuits, and something that's been on everybody's mind since the dawn of music (when wazzat?): how should musicians get paid? If I haven't given ...

Last.fm and misinformation

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

I need to retract a decision I made based on seemingly false news. Just over a month ago I posted an announcement that Simulacre Media would be removing its entire catalog from the Last.fm service due to the imposition of user fees in countries other than the US, UK, and Germany. ...

Massive Technology Show (Vancouver, April 1) as it happens

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="6S/Capulet/Peer1 panelists"][/caption] torn btw liveblogging and tweeting. what is the appopriate or trendy thing to do for conferences/panels now? listening to Peer1/6S/Capulet panel right now.(11:08 AM) Richard Smith: throwing "business sheep". heh. why does the assumption that TV and radio are not interactive media prevail? let's not forget our media ...

Nokia’s Legends Telegraph

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.

Android

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 ...

A Spectre Is Haunting Marillion

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

This? Oh yeah, we already did that. & it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!

Smartphones, Price Points, and Purchasing Power Parity

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 ...

Why mobile services are not being adopted :: Apptrigger

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 ...

Remake/Remodel

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 ...

On Last.fm and royalty payments

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 ...