Media - what is it good for…

Live Mesh was introduced yesterday by Microsoft.  It is the brain child of Ray Ozzie and really seems like an out-growth of the work he did with Groove.  At its simplest, Live Mesh is basic file sync.  But another way to think about Live Mesh is as the ultimate P2P platform.  When people think of [...]

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Lost in the hubbub about DEMO vs TechCrunch50 is another news item that is getting some press today but not nearly enough by my reckoning.  Basically the study asserts that web influencers don’t really mean that much in the grand scheme of things.  People instead get their recommendations from people they trust, namely their friends.  And this makes perfect sense [...]

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It seemed like an April fools joke but apparently it’s true that EMI has hired Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google.  Hopefully this will lead to something interesting! As I (and others) said before new business models are required to revive the music industry and to date the labels’ efforts to take their collective business out of a nose dive seem very [...]

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The Wall St Journal has an article this morning saying that Google will launch an ad-supported music service in China.  This is in part a response to Baidu’s lead in the Chinese market (where a large share of the searches are for music on the web) but could also be a harbinger of things to [...]

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Lots of thought has gone into why music sales are declining with piracy always pointed to as the likely culprit. Some say music today is not as good as yesterday’s music which seems like a weak argument. However, one thing that I have been thinking about is that the buying public has a [...]

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Scoble pissed off the blogosphere yesterday saying that Engadget does not link to others. I read some posts on this subject and a bunch of comments on Scoble’s blog. When I read some of this, it reminded me that I don’t really listen/watch to podcast or video blogs (Scoble’s new gig). [...]

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