September 14, 2011
Blog Archives
Future of Social Biz?
The Future of Social Business, or just unfocused?
the intersection of social, mobile and retail
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Seven ways you can and should start charging for your content
Why micropayments failed. Why Steve Jobs’ 99 cents per song formed the entire digital content industry. And successful techniques you can use to get people to pay for your content.
Why is music still not social?
A cool piece today’s by Marshall Kirkpatrick in ReadWriteWeb about media personalization. He detail’s a small change by British newspaper The Independent to the way users are able to “like” content on it’s website. Now, instead of just being able to like the entire newspaper itself, or individual articles, users are able to like the … Continue Reading
How does iTunes drive such a huge market share?
This past Sunday Apple’s iTunes celebrated it’s 10th birthday. As a digital music acquisition tool first and foremost, it’s sold over 10 billion songs and controls nearly 70% of the digital music download market. And yet, the music industry has yet to empower a competitor seriously enough as to threaten it’s dominance… Why? Unfortunately there … Continue Reading
YouTube is no site for old men
Rumors are swirling this week that Internet giant Google is considering buying the digital rights for Miramax’s catalog of more than 700 feature film titles such as Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction and No Country For Old Men. Why would Google do such a thing? To shore up full-length content on it’s YouTube platform. With studios … Continue Reading
Mobile application platform: Can two dozen work better than one?
News just came out today from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that 24 mobile carriers from around the world are going to unite together to produce an international application store called the “Wholesale Applications Community.” It’s an obvious reaction to Apple’s iTunes application store which has a stringent review policy before any application will … Continue Reading
