Archive for June, 2007
Enhance iPhone’s Hardware with Playboy’s Software
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 29th, 2007 in Apple, Digital Orgasms, Humor, iPhone, iPlayboy, sex.Ok I saw this press release today and couldnt resist. Read the full release after the jump.
Enhance iPhone’s Hardware with Playboy’s Software
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 29th, 2007 in Apple, Digital Orgasms, Humor, iPhone, iPlayboy, sex.Ok I saw this press release today and couldnt resist. Read the full release after the jump.
UK Music Industry Threatens Prince Over Music Promotions
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 29th, 2007 in Digital Music, Music Musings, NARM, Prince, Record stores, TAFKAP, great ideas, pyrrhic victories, social ideas.The Brit tabloid, Mail on Sunday, has come under attack from British music retailers over a promotion its running with Prince (TAFKAP). It seems that the retailers have gotten all bent out of shape because the paper, with 2 million weekly readers, was smart enough to sign a deal with the Purple One to give [...]
Research Tuesday: Research from around the web
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 28th, 2007 in Conjecture, Gadgets, Long Tail, Market Research & Intelligence, Online TV, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, SMF, Tech Musings, Technology & Entertainment, TrendSpotting, User Generated Content, Web Resources, Zune, horrible headlines, mobile, mobile phone, social ideas, trend, video.Ok, so research Tuesday became research Wednesday Thursday.
Males Love Video Long Time
It’s been a reading week for me. Lots of great stuff to mull over and help shape ones thinking about digital media. Lets start with a report by consultancy Frank N. Magid & Associates with the irresistibly tantalizing header “80% of 18 - 24 [...]
ZapMeals: Closing the Gap Betwen Mouse and Tummy
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 22nd, 2007 in Foodie, Foolishness, Humor, Innovation, Start-ups, Web 2.0, great companies, hot betas, hot launches, social ideas.A great new Web 2.0 launch that plans on revolutionizing the restaurant and take-out industries. The start-up has an amazingly ambitious plan to help restaurants and home cooks monetize they excess capacity and inventory while delivering quality, low-cost food options. This is an amazing long-tail opportunity that I never even saw coming. Basically the company [...]
Bain: 75% of Companies Face Extinction. “Innovation” and entrepreneurship cant help…
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 22nd, 2007 in Chris Zook, Conjecture, Consultant bashing, Guru's, Research.Bain, the KGB of consulting companies and breeding ground for presidential hopefuls, announced the results of a 10 year study on business which essentially said companies wont be able to buy or create a solution to their impending doom. Needless to say it was a bit of a downer. The study, book advertisement, announcement was [...]
Bain: 75% of Companies Face Extinction. “Innovation” and entrepreneurship cant help…
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 22nd, 2007 in Chris Zook, Conjecture, Consultant bashing, Guru's, Research.Bain, the KGB of consulting companies and breeding ground for presidential hopefuls, announced the results of a 10 year study on business which essentially said companies wont be able to buy or create a solution to their impending doom. Needless to say it was a bit of a downer. The study, book advertisement, announcement was [...]
YouTube Live on AppleTV iPhone Next
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 20th, 2007 in Apple, AppleTV, User Generated Content, YouTube, iPhone.In a release put this morning Apple acknowledged the much rumored link between AppleTV and YouTube. The release stressed that while AppleTV + YouTube was cool iPhone + YouTube is killer. As the Apple’s marketing machine gears up for next weeks launch of the iPhone I wonder what other announcements are in store. From the [...]
BGO: No DRM Infection = Higher Sales
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 20th, 2007 in Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Digital Music, Digital downloading, EMI, anti-drm, copyright, drm.Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious
For some reason folks are acting all shocked that sales of digital music seem to go up when you dont cripple it with DRM. In a piece thats all over the net right now (here, here, here and here) Bloomberg (the news service not the recently independent, non-presidential candidate) [...]
Stan Schroeder over at Frantic Industries did a more though and in-depth review of the WebOS options then the blurp i posted a few days ago If your interested in how folks are expanding the functionality and depth of web applications, this post is about as insightful as they come.
