Archive for February, 2007
Let the groveling begin!
Joost just opened up their invites system (called tokens) and I’ve got’em. Basically Joost is an online TV application by the same folks that created Skype and sold it to ebay for billions. They are the talk of the town in media circles and Viacom just signed a deal with them. Some [...]
EMI and Last.fm join forces is Pandora Next
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 28th, 2007 in Broadband, EMI, deals, drm, last.fm, mp3, ted cohen.After Steve Jobs dropped his anti-DRM bomb on the labels people immediately started talking about which label would be the first to wake up to MP3. Early money was on EMI being the first to buckle, largely because they are in the toughest financial position and Ted Cohen used to run the show. We’ll looks [...]
Gadget Goodness: Radio with 37GB Harddisk
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 28th, 2007 in Gadgets, Tech Musings, Technology and Gadgets, TrendSpotting, Web Resources, trend.Our friends at Akihabar News ran a blurb on a very interesting product from the folks at Olympus. I have long since given up listening to radio, with its overly repetitiously play list, its canned DJ’s and its monotonous pop drone (can Mos Def get some airplay?). Anyway, while the radio isnt that interesting by [...]
The Formula of Web 3.0 (is it Wrong?)
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 20th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Web 2.0, a-listers, business, samantic web, social media, web 3.0, web math.Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
According to a great post by Sramana Mitra this formula is the future of the web. The four C’s in this formula are content, community, and commerce with a fourth C representing context. The P is for personalization and the VS is for vertical search. Sramana believes that [...]
A DRM Primer: Everything you wanted to know.
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 20th, 2007 in Conjecture.While reading sites that popped up in my Tag Surfer I came across a random post by Steve Seidel thats a pretty damn good primer on DRM. Its long, preachy and a bit one-sided with tons of links and lots of quotes. So if you’ve been wondering what the “DRM issue” was all about, this [...]
Sales Down, Profits Up: How movie theaters do it.
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 14th, 2007 in Movie downloads, Research, Research Summary, Tech Musings, kagan, movie tickets, video.Do you still go to the movies? Then your one of an ever dwindling number of Americans that still do. A factoid released by the good folks at Kagan Research puts a sunny face on the industries declining fourtunes. In it Kagan helpfully points out that movie theaters making money despite sinking sales by gouging [...]
Piracy has No Impact on CD Sales says Report
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 12th, 2007 in Digital Music, IFPI, Market Research & Intelligence, Music Musings, RIAA and Record Labels, Research, Research Summary, Tech Musings, drm, file sharing, mp3, p2p.A central tenet of the RIAA/IFPI terror campaign against file downloading has been that file downloading causes the industry to loose billion of dollars a year. This point is hotly debated by many who point out that downloading is more like sampling then buying and has probably resulted in net growth for the industry. [...]
Pirate Bay Bitch Slaps MPAA
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 12th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Broadband, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Humor, Movie downloads, The Pirate Bay, YouTube, anti-drm, copyright, movie downloading, mpaa, p2p, parody, video.“Were winning” they say! I’d have to agree.
Our favorite swashbuckling buccaneers over at the Pirate Bay have done it again. These guys have all the swagger, ambition and balls that their name implies. Its not enough that they want to buy an island to freely distribute the digital goodness we all crave, or that they [...]
Fallout from Steve Jobs anti-DRM Bomb
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello February 9th, 2007 in Apple, Digital Music, Entertainment, IFPI, Music Musings, Pundit Spats, RIAA and Record Labels, Steve Jobs, anti-drm, business, drm, great companies, iPod/iTunes, michael robertson, mp3, trend, warner music.Earlier this week the Chief Evangelical Officer of Apple Computers Inc., Steve Jobs, channeled the spirit of Ronald Regan (media moguls tear down these digital walls) and wrote an open letter (read my post here) aimed at the music barron’s in their Bling’d-out offices. In it he basically says that DRM sucks, iPods rock and [...]
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While exploring GooTube I came across this humorous blueprint of how a company can be its own worse enemy. companies erase innovation through . Taken as a metaphor for the innovation process, it highlights a bunch of steps that get in the way of a great product. Even more amazing is this video was made by the good folks in Redmond.
Innovation is the hard to achieve because ultimately it requires a leap of faith. An emotional connection to an idea or ideal that is so strong it transcends the available information and may in fact contradict it. Its this leap of faith that management cant make, especially when their 401k’s, titles, and careers are on the line.
Business management is a pseudo-science that attempts to establish and maintaining order by institutionalizing processes that allow for control. Innovation is a pseudo-religion that resists control and requires the same faith in its existence that all gods have, since humans started creating them.
