Archive for April, 2007
Pricing Digital Music: An academic perspective
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 25th, 2007 in Digital Music, Digital downloading, Market Research & Intelligence, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, Survey, academics, anti-drm, file sharing, monetization, mp3, p2p monetization, p2p research, pricing, quantifiction.Trolling SSRN I came across another academic report destroying much of the FUD put out by the RIAA in their attempt to criminalize digital downloads. Like all good academic studies it has a cumbersome and wordy title, The Analog Hole and the Price of Music: An Empirical Study, which belies the rather simple text contained [...]
RIAA Sultans of Spin: Survey Data From 1,077 Internet Users
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 23rd, 2007 in Digital Music, Groups Opposing the RIAA, RIAA, Survey, anti-drm, copyright, lawsuits.A Pew Research report it aint, but the good folks at P2pnet.net have released the raw data from their online survey of Internet users, entitled “Sultans of Spin“. The data is released under the creative commons license and is in MS access format for easy crunching if your a database geek (I’m not). I mentioned [...]
AnywhereCD and the $12 MP3 Album
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello April 23rd, 2007 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Music Musings, Record stores, anywherecd, lawsuits, michael robertson, mp3, pyrrhic victories, stupid ideas, warner music.Last week serial business starter and aging Internet super-star, Michael Robertson, launched the 6th iconoclastic Internet venture in his portfolio of disruptive ventures. The new business, called AnywhereCD, billed itself as an MP3 music vendor with a CD delivery option. And while the business itself is a bit of a yawner, its pricing and sales [...]
I’ve been a Prosper lender since October of last year and in January I started lending on Kiva as well but my online lending trifecta wont be complete until I can gamble on human hope using Zopa. Zopa is an online market place for lending to other folks much like Prosper in reverse. I’ve been anxiously awaiting the coming of Zopa but despite all the funding noise and media attention they havent made it to the US.
Well that may be about to change. According to an email they sent out this morning they are getting ready to launch, not just in the California as they originally stated, but nationally. With Zopa I’ll be able to loan money for as little as 6 months and further diversity my portfolio of person to person loans. From purely social lending on Kiva to the modestly social lending on Prosper and wholly economic lending on Zopa, I am becoming a banking institution $100 at a time.
Why I love Public Access TV
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 19th, 2007 in Digital Orgasms, Great English, Humor, NSFW, PeopleTV, Social and Politics, User Generated Content, social ideas.Its the original YouTube. The precursor to Vlog’s and it’s everywhere. Yes folks I’m talking about public access TV. There are few better methods for getting the tenor of a community then the local public access station. It the one location where anyone form your grandma to your pet snake can have their own soap [...]
Media Exec’s: Start-ups and User Generated Content Are Eating our Lunch
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 18th, 2007 in Consultant bashing, User Generated Content, social media.Came across a great post on the Future of News blog, about a survey conducted by close talkers over at Accenture consulting. The annual survey, entitled Beyond the Hype: How Content and Technology Are Redefining Media, is given to “110 of the worlds most influential media executives”. Of the many interesting tidbits in the report [...]
Media Exec’s: Start-ups and User Generated Content Are Eating our Lunch
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 18th, 2007 in Consultant bashing, User Generated Content, social media.Came across a great post on the Future of News blog, about a survey conducted by close talkers over at Accenture consulting. The annual survey, entitled Beyond the Hype: How Content and Technology Are Redefining Media, is given to “110 of the worlds most influential media executives”. Of the many interesting tidbits in the report [...]
The Death Knell Tolls for Pandora and Other Webcasters
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello April 18th, 2007 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Foolishness, Pandora, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, copyright, last.fm, pyrrhic victories, streaming music, stupid ideas.A couple of weeks ago a little known government body called the Copyright Royalty Board set new rates for webcasters like Pandora, Last.fm and other streaming music services. The new rates made many webcasters and streaming music entrepreneurs apoplectic. Only being tangentially related to the streaming music space I was a bit confused by all [...]
What Evil File-traders Think about the Virtuous RIAA
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 15th, 2007 in AllOfMP3, Groups Opposing the RIAA, Market Research & Intelligence, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Research, Survey, a-list, anti-drm, file sharing, p2p, p2p research.Last week, I mentioned the survey from P2Pnet.net, that AllofMP3.com was promoting on their homepage. Well the good folks at P2Pnet have released some initial data and say they will release the entire data-set on Monday. So far they have over 750 respondents and what looks like some really good directional information on the thinking [...]
BumpTop: An Interesting Desktop Metaphor
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 14th, 2007 in HCI, bumptop, human computer interface, interfaces.I know they’re a bit old but I love the direction that this research is moving in. Check out the video of the BumpTop desktop application (the first video) and then look at the Pixel Play video (vid #2). You can see how the ideas evolve and converge and point to where this sort of [...]
