Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category
Zune EPIC Fail!!! Tattooed fanboy buys iPod.
0 Comments Published by admin July 29th, 2008 in Fun with PR, Gadgets, Microsoft, Zune, fanboys, social media.I’ve never been a fan of the Zune, back in November of ‘06 I laid out 10 reasons the Zune would fail and was surprised by the number of Zune fans that told me I was dead wrong. Of course the ultimate expression of Zune fandom was when Steve Smith’s got himself tattooed with the [...]
2051 Google Pawns Big Media
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 18th, 2007 in Conjecture, Free/Open Source, Futurist, Google, Market Research & Intelligence, Microsoft, business, copyright, file sharing, great ideas.Amazin’ Phasin’ hipped me to a very interesting video put on YouTube by the folks at the Italian consultancy Casaleggio Associati. The video is a look back at the media landscape from the year 2051. Its interesting for a couple of reasons: 1) its definitely wrong on the details 2) it seems directionally correct 3) [...]
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 [...]
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While exploring GooTube I came across this humorous blueprint of how a company can be its own worse enemy. companies erase innovation through . Taken as a metaphor for the innovation process, it highlights a bunch of steps that get in the way of a great product. Even more amazing is this video was made by the good folks in Redmond.
Innovation is the hard to achieve because ultimately it requires a leap of faith. An emotional connection to an idea or ideal that is so strong it transcends the available information and may in fact contradict it. Its this leap of faith that management cant make, especially when their 401k’s, titles, and careers are on the line.
Business management is a pseudo-science that attempts to establish and maintaining order by institutionalizing processes that allow for control. Innovation is a pseudo-religion that resists control and requires the same faith in its existence that all gods have, since humans started creating them.
10 Reasons Zune will Flop
11 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 14th, 2006 in Apple, Conjecture, Device, Digital Music, Gadgets, Microsoft, Music Musings, Zune, iPod, iPod/iTunes, mp3, p2p.Today the Zune player from Windows will explode from the shelves of 30,000 stores around the country, to what I anticipate will be the collective yawn of a “me-to” device weary public.
Will Microsoft spend billions pushing the Zune player on the market? Yes.
Will they make a huge splash in the press? Yes.
Will they put out [...]
Zune Wishful Thinking: Most iPod owners will buy Zune
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello November 3rd, 2006 in Device, Digital Music, Gadgets, Microsoft, Research, Zune, iPod/iTunes.This morning I was checking out the folks at Zunescene when I noticed the following headline:
Many iPod Owners Will Buy Zune
The post pointed to this ABI Research article on a survey they did of 1,725 “consumers” and their likelihood to purchase a Zune player. Of the people who responded to the survey 58% of the [...]
Microsoft Drops Price of Zune, Will Anyone Care?
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello September 28th, 2006 in Conjecture, Digital Music, Fun with PR, Humor, Microsoft, Zune, iPod.Today Microsoft announced that they will be releasing the Zune Player on Nov. 14th and dropping the price to $249.99. This after Microsoft was thrown into a tizzy when Apple announced that its next generation iPod would retail for $249 and speculation started to swirl about what the final price of the Zune would have [...]
Overstock.com Clearance Dept. Ready for Zune
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello September 18th, 2006 in Apple, Device, Digital Music, Gadgets, Microsoft, Zune, iPod, iPod/iTunes.I really wanted to title this post “Zune everyone will get the Urge for an iPod”, but thought better of it. What good would it do to make fun of the two companies I’d most like to work for in the future, if for no other reason then to get a bit of what their [...]
Game Changing Gear
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 14th, 2006 in Gadgets, Innovation, Microsoft, Mobile TV, Tech Musings, Technology and Gadgets.How cool is this? TV anywhere, anytime on your laptop. A small device called the MobiTV Global was released earlier this week by the Japanese firm Links International. It’s about the size of your standard USB key and connects to your computer via the USB 2.0 slot, where it also gets its power. The [...]
Michael Robertson Writes off Microsoft.
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 24th, 2006 in Innovation, Microsoft, Tech Musings, Web 2.0, ajaxwrites, michael robertson.The battle starts with these words from Michael Robertson, “Bye Bye Microsoft Word, Hello ajaxWrite”. You gotta love his showmanship. From relentlessly tweaking the music Industry with MP3.com to taking on MS with Lindows and hitting them up for 20 million dollars to go away. Back when I was publishing [...]
