Archive for the 'great companies' Category
Google Backdoors the Telco’s
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello October 16th, 2007 in Google, Googleplex, google trends, great companies, great ideas. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=cN0q8SvlQAk]
That damned Google! No matter how much I try to avoid getting sucked into the Googleplex by their absurdly useful and free services, I cant seem to avoid it. Today I was compelled to give Google two permanent slots in my mobile phonebook. The first for the infinity useful Google SMS, which I use [...]
Google Backdoors the Telco’s
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello October 16th, 2007 in Google, Googleplex, google trends, great companies, great ideas. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=cN0q8SvlQAk]
That damned Google! No matter how much I try to avoid getting sucked into the Googleplex by their absurdly useful and free services, I cant seem to avoid it. Today I was compelled to give Google two permanent slots in my mobile phonebook. The first for the infinity useful Google SMS, which I use [...]
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 [...]
MAJOR RECORD LABELS WITHDRAW FROM RIAA
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 1st, 2007 in Apple, Broadband, Digital Music, EMI, Entertainment, Fun with PR, Groups Opposing the RIAA, IFPI, Innovation, Microsoft, Music Musings, RARA, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Viral marketing, anti-drm, copyright, drm, great companies, great ideas, guerilla marketing, satire, social ideas, tech humor.This amazing bit of news was forwarded by Fred Benenson of Free Culture @ NYU. It’s amazing news and a critical development for the online music space. You can get more information at the RARA site and I’ve duplicated their message in full below without commentary:
From: Press Contact <respectartistaudience@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2007 [...]
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 [...]
Linden Labs Does Right By Parody Second Life Site
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello January 22nd, 2007 in Blogosphere, BoingBoing, Humor, copyright, great companies, linden labs, parody, satire, second life, tech humor.I’ve played with Second Life on and off for a little over a year and have been as underwhelmed by the experience as I’ve been overwhelmed with the passion of its users. Some folks “grok” Second Life and some folks dont. I’m definitely one of the donts. To me SL is just D&D 2.0 with [...]
