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Fire Wire Widget Bridg’in

Unless you’re that proverbial dark-side-of-a-rock dweller, you’ve certainly heard all about the wildfires that ravaged through Southern California. I was in the thick of the plumes, and while my own humble abode was nestled safely within the heavily concrete grids of Google’s LA Street View, I can testify that for one scary week […]

MOG Following Imeem’s Ad-Rev Footsteps?

So it looks like MOG.com, the music social-network Pepsi to Last.fm’s Coke, will be launching a redesigned site this November, according to the CEO David Hyman’s MOG blog. Getting past superficial interface design issues, the most intriguing part of Hyman’s brief, off-the-cuff post is this titillating quote:
“…there will be new features that […]

Imeem or Google: Contrasting Approaches to Content Partnerships

When we think of major corporate business deals and partnerships, we’re usually informed by way of cookie cutter headlines and lawyer-reviewed press releases. It’s easy to imagine a team of Ivy-diplomaed analysts, researchers, MBAs and lawyers crunching numbers, writing highly detailed reports, negotiating tic-for-tac fine print and tweaking language and legalities. We imagine […]

The Future of the Music Industry; A Dozen (+1) Companies Leading the Charge

Part 2 of a 3 part series
In what was undoutedly *ahem*, an epic novel of blog post in part 1, I argued *ahem* without a shred of a doubt the inevitability of an ad-rev supported future music industry. The great thing about postulating so far into the future is that it would take […]