Media - what is it good for…

So the blogosphere is abuzz with the iPhone 3G and app store launch.  I am convinced this will be a huge success but lots of teething problems are present in the launch.  And the issue I have with this is that very few people (Om Malik excluded) seem to be taking Apple to task for [...]

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Congrats to Peter Gotcher and the rest of the folks at Topspin!  We need more companies like this one that are actually trying to do something positive for the recording industry.   And I think Topspin might win the coolest cover picture for a company launch.  Follow the link and check it out.  I could [...]

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Steve Jobs may or may not announce a new iPhone today and that’s important but it almost does not matter because the real power of the iPhone is the SDK and apps that get built on it.  Apple has effectively turned the iPhone into a developer platform and that has a tremendous multiplier effect on the value [...]

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Adobe and Qualcomm announced a deal today to integrate Flash into the BREW developer platform.  The most significant parts are:

going forward Flash developers can count on Flash being present on Qualcomm powered handsets (most prominently Verizon’s handsets)
that there will be no Flash royalty that handsets will have to pay to include the Flash runtime which [...]

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Saw this on GigaOM.  This software is a killer feature for me.  I have toyed with the idea of buying a cycling computer but this much slicker because I always bring a mobile phone anyway.  All the hardware is built into the phone already so essentially this is just software.  I am sure a cycling [...]

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By now it’s fairly well-known that selling digital music downloads is a tough business with thin margins. However, across both online as well as brick-and-mortar retailing, music and video is being used more universally as a loss leader and it’s not clear what this trends means for content in general. For example:

for Apple, [...]

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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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So Yahoo earnings are out and they are a little better than expected.  But you have to think Yahoo tried very hard to beat the expectations pulling all possible levers to make this happen.  If that assumption is true then the real numbers are probably more inline with what the street expected (or worse).  So [...]

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Noticed this week that Wordpress has upgraded to some new version (at least the UI has changed significantly). And it now does not seem to work very well with Safari. Specifically, opening the “link” window gives you an empty window. Any one else notice this? I actually have reverted to using [...]

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So MSFT just turned up the heat on Yahoo and I agree with Henry Blodget that Yahoo has been out maneuvered. I am not sure that there is much left for Yahoo to do unless some other deal gets done in short order. I also think MSFT has already figured out what kind [...]

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