Well, That’s Certainly One Way To Do Mobile Music at MobHappy: Did I read that right…. the Stones will only play 7 minutes through the phone from soundboard… to prevent BOOTLEGGING????? Yes, because bootleggers get kicks out of the compression from telephone lines. When will (most) bands realize that bootleg recordings of shows are the best inner and post record cycle marketing tools they have?
I wonder what Scott McCloud is going to make of the iPad?
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if just half of the iPad book apps are going to be like this, and I was Amazon or Dell, I would be having some crisis meetings in conference rooms right about now.
- #[From First Look: How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad | paidContent:UK ]
If I was in the set-top box market, or TV content market, I'd react with a significant amount of fear to Tim Cook saying Apple had no interest in the TV market.
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Yeah, thought so. I bet the next platform is AppleTV. Natural fit.
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So the Windows performance analyst community is about as smarmy as the seduction community. Who'd have thought?
- #[From Why we don't trust Devil Mountain Software (and neither should you) | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com ]
This happened to me on Orbitz when we went to Maui. I ended up having to call Orbitz and go through tons of levels to complain, called the GM of the hotel, etc. We got taken care of, but the hotel basically said that they treat Travelocity, Orbitz and Expedia bookings as second to direct or agent booked travel.
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Couldn't have happened to a better group. Love UrbanAirship.
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I can attest to this. I've stopped buying Android phones because I figure every time you do, something "Amazing" is coming out on another carrier, or even on the same carrier. At least on the IPhone you know: Every July.
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Can this please be the DirectTV Tivo that we all so need.
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Why does the fact that someone is announcing a phone automatically mean its an iPhone killer? Lazy journalism, that's why.
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My guess, probably when the — and I hate to say this — MySpace bands become popular enough to warrant bigger recording contracts. They seem to truly understand — or in the case of older bands, remember — how bootlegging and word of mouth advertising work.
This has worked in the Jam Band scene for years. The Grateful Dead, Phish, and many other similar bands would sell special ‘Taper’s Tickets’ for people with professional equipment to make legitimate recordings of concerts. The taper’s section is usually close to the soundboard.
It is easy to find bitttorrents of these recordings: bt.etree.org and archive.org/details/etree
Before bittorrent, people at etree.org used to create distribution trees. Person B downloads from Person A, Person C downloads from Person B, and so on. This worked surprisingly well (not as effective as bittorrent) because most people involved in the distribution tree cared about spreading the band’s music.
Before distribution trees, kind enough people would host recordings on their ftp servers.
Before CD-R’s, people traded tapes.
Before the internet, well, I have no idea how that worked, but it did. Dead-heads had been trading tapes for years.
The best example of a band that offers easily-accessible music is Umphrey’s McGee. They have free monthly podcasts (soundboard recordings!) from highlight moments of recent shows. I’ve been listening to this band for the last couple months, and I haven’t yet paid a dime. However, I will go see them live this fall, so I’d say their marketing tool has been a success.
Rather than turning me away by putting a price tag in front of their music, they invited me as an active listener, and I am now much more willing to shell out the $$ to see them in concert.