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About Recorded Music, Albums, Rdio, and Streaming iTunes

This is how I’ve been using Rdio: I find an album I’m interested in and add songs I like to my Rdio collection. If I add enough songs to the collection, say half or more of the tracks, then I’ll … Continue reading

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Imagined Negotiation Dialogues Between Labels and Streaming Services

Label: So let me get this straight. We currently offer our albums for download at $10 a pop. Streaming service: Yup. Label: And you’re proposing that we go in with you and a bunch of other labels to have our … Continue reading

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Link: Coping With Fury at a Price Hike

Inc. Magazine profiles eMusic and the way they dealt with their price hike last year. Stein knew there was only one way to prevent even more labels from jumping ship: raise prices for subscribers. He also knew that eMusic couldn’t … Continue reading

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Link: Mark Zuckerberg Will Personally Hack Your Facebook Account

I don’t know about Gawker’s headline, but this article goes through some old chat logs to show that Zuck might be a sleaze ball. On developing ConnectU, a similar project, alongside Facebook: Mark and this friend also had the following … Continue reading

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How Important Is SEO Really?

I think it’s not as important as it’s made out to be. Windows Email Software You might think Outlook, or maybe Thunderbird, but instead you get: Operating System Company Surely Microsoft would be at the top of the list, right? … Continue reading

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VOTE WITH YER WALLIT DERPA DER

Yeah! Totally spot on! Even with music. Remember the inconvenience when you’d put a CD in and it would just start playing music? No wonder people pirate music now. Why should you go through the hassle of buying a download … Continue reading

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The Business Club

My local newspaper ran an article about the disappearance of Home Economics classes from high school curriculums. 10 years ago it wasn’t cool to take a Home Economics class. I opted for that course instead of Calculus. Most students took … Continue reading

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Doing the Basics Better / Cookie Packaging

When people talk about progress they usually refer to how much better their iPhone is than their old cell phone or how much more mileage their hybrid car gets than their old car. But there are some things that nobody … Continue reading

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Link: Jeff Bezos answers some questions about the Kindle

Talking about how people can self-publish their books through Amazon for the Kindle: NYT: How does that work? Bezos: Basically you submit the book, you set the price for it, we charge the customer and then we give you 35 … Continue reading

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The XX Advertising on The Deck

Saw this in NetNewsWire earlier this week. Seems obvious in retrospect, considering the kinds of people The Deck targets. By the way, good album.

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