Archive for the 'last.fm' Category
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 [...]
The Two Sides of NIN
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 21st, 2007 in ARG, Blogosphere, Digital Music, Foolishness, Music Musings, NIN, Viral marketing, file sharing, guerilla marketing, last.fm, mp3, p2p.At this weeks VON 07 conference I was accosted by a fanatic passionate Canuck Podcaster. He regaled me with tales of the Internet’s future and helpfully suggested I spend more time online; so I could better understand online communities and the changes they are likely to have on big media.
One of the many points he [...]
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 [...]
