Archive for the 'michael robertson' Category
Michael Robertson’s Music Locker Smackdown
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in CEO comments, Digital Music, Digital downloading, Lala.com, Pundit Spats, copyright, michael robertson, music lockers.Lala.com, an online CD trading platform, began offering a limited music locker with free music streaming this week and it pissed off uber-CEO and music locker competitor Michael Robertson. The general reaction to Lala.com’s announcement ranged from the mildly bemused to the historically reflective with most blog post and articles mentioning Mp3.com or Napster as [...]
Michael Robertson’s Music Locker Smackdown
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in CEO comments, Digital Music, Digital downloading, Lala.com, Pundit Spats, copyright, michael robertson, music lockers.Lala.com, an online CD trading platform, began offering a limited music locker with free music streaming this week and it pissed off uber-CEO and music locker competitor Michael Robertson. The general reaction to Lala.com’s announcement ranged from the mildly bemused to the historically reflective with most blog post and articles mentioning Mp3.com or Napster as [...]
AnywhereCD back in CD Business
6 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 7th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, Digital Music, Foolishness, Fun with PR, anywherecd, deals, lawsuits, michael robertson, streaming music, warner music.Back in April, Michael Robertson launched his latest Internet venture called AnywhereCD, which was supposed to sell CD’s with MP3 tracks that could be downloaded immediately. No sooner had the companies press release hit the Blogosphere then Warner Music pulled its music from the site. The lawsuits started to fly and the AnywhereCD was reduced [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Makin’ Money with MP3tunes
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello August 29th, 2006 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Foolishness, MP3tunes, Quantification, Tech Musings, fun with excel, michael robertson, mp3.I love MP3tunes and when they announced that they were expanding their service to include 1GB of free music storage I thought it was a brilliant move. The MP3tune service is pretty simple, give them $40 bucks a year and you can upload all the music you have into a virtual “locker”. They [...]
Makin’ Money with MP3tunes
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello August 29th, 2006 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Foolishness, MP3tunes, Quantification, Tech Musings, fun with excel, michael robertson, mp3.I love MP3tunes and when they announced that they were expanding their service to include 1GB of free music storage I thought it was a brilliant move. The MP3tune service is pretty simple, give them $40 bucks a year and you can upload all the music you have into a virtual “locker”. They [...]
Rank Obessions
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello May 30th, 2006 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Music Musings, Tech Musings, michael robertson.(Edit the Spreadsheet for this chart here)
This may sound strange but I couldnt care less about my Technocrati ranking. Readers (both of you) have made this blog the 528,178th most linked to blog and I'm proud of that. This post by Guy Kawasaki (The OE), about his obsession with his Technocrati ranking made me reflect [...]
What does it take to build a business that gets a whole meme named after it? How do you get to be part of the Web 2.0 goodness that has been exploding all over the media? I dont know, but the web does provide access to lots of people that do. I contacted 10 of them for their answers to these questions and more.
Firing up my email program, along with a bit of courage, I emailed the founders of 10 different companies a series of questions about how they started their businesses and any lessons they'd picked-up along the way. I expected to get a few cruel letters of rejection and disdain from some overworked PR flack distrustful of blogs and unsure of their validity or usefulness. Instead, six founders running some of the Webs most interesting companies (at least the ones I use most often) agreed to chat with me.
Score: Indie Blogger 1, PR Flacks 0! Continue reading ‘10 CEO’s, 5 Questions, 1 Big Insight’
What does it take to build a business that gets a whole meme named after it? How do you get to be part of the Web 2.0 goodness that has been exploding all over the media? I dont know, but the web does provide access to lots of people that do. I contacted 10 of them for their answers to these questions and more.
Firing up my email program, along with a bit of courage, I emailed the founders of 10 different companies a series of questions about how they started their businesses and any lessons they'd picked-up along the way. I expected to get a few cruel letters of rejection and disdain from some overworked PR flack distrustful of blogs and unsure of their validity or usefulness. Instead, six founders running some of the Webs most interesting companies (at least the ones I use most often) agreed to chat with me.
Score: Indie Blogger 1, PR Flacks 0! Continue reading ‘10 CEO’s, 5 Questions, 1 Big Insight’
