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Is content you can edit open source?

None of this is true "open source." It's more a search for viable business models in the Internet age, a way to draw the attention needed to generate excitement and sales, in some form. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Video, Radiohead, Corporate Communications, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-17

The implosion of music DRM

I certainly wouldn't have expected that, within a year, most digital music would be legally available, DRM-free, from online download sites. That seems on track to happen, however, as Sony just announced it would be releasing its music in DRM-free MP3 format. It helps, of course, that DRM-free music on...

Tags: CD, Digital-rights Management, Digital Music, Music, Radiohead, Trent Reznor, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-04

Radiohead's DRM experiment

Radiohead's DRM experimentBut you didn't give money to RadioheadFair enough if you were just sampling and found you didn't like it, but what are the odds you'd pay to a band you DID like? That, of course, is the million dollar question. Clearly, MOST aren't paying of their...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Radiohead, music, ComScore Networks Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

Radiohead's DRM experiment

Numbers are rolling in from Radiohead's experimental approach to digital music sales, and at first glance, they might appear to be a repudiation of the model. That approach, of course, was for Radiohead to release their new album, "In Rainbows," on the Radiohead website without DRM protections while allowing fans...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Band, Radiohead, Sales Strategy, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Sales Force Management, Digital Media, Sales, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Radiohead and the search for content business models

Radiohead and the search for content business modelsRemember when Stephen King...... published a book on the internet? Most people chose free then, as well.Relying on people to choose to pay is not an effective business model. Particularly when the product is considered likely to be disposeable after one...

Tags: Strategy, content business model, Radiohead, business model

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Radiohead and the search for content business models

Early results are in on Radiohead's experiment in "name your price" music with their album In Rainbows. Most people chose free. These are early returns. A CD's economic lifespan can be two years. Given the millions still being raked-in by Elvis Presley, John Lennon...

Tags: Game, CD, Business Model, Music, Radiohead, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-06

The future of music studios

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announced recently that he he doesn't need need no steenkin' music studios, leaving the days of contract-based servitude behind him in favor of the open fields of free agent status. This gives him the opportunity to sell direct to customers in any fashion -...

Tags: Studio, Radiohead, Marketing Research, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-10-09

Radiohead album bets on fast release, open pricing

Radiohead album bets on fast release, open pricingThe variable pricing model has been done by Jane Siberry...on her website for quite awhile. I'd like to hear what she says about its efficiency at generating income for her. I love the idea of the quick turnaround and keeping the labels out...

Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, pricing model, fast release, Radiohead, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2007-10-07

Open source tells content owners adapt or die

Open source offers a business model for software which gives consumers more control. They get the code, they can see the code, they can change the code, without ever paying you a dime. That they do pay you, that they pay you enough for you to make...

Tags: New York Times Co., Radiohead, Open Source Movement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Additional Resources

MonkeyTone GSM 1.2 (Mobile)

Now in Color! Supports Palm 3C, Visor Edge, Sony Clie. Need to personalize your Phone a bit more ? What better way than with your own, customized ring?MonkeyTone lets you compose, edit, and install new ringtones for your Nokia GSM phone, from your Palm handheld !Store up to 500 ringtones...

Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Palm Inc., Primate Systems, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Semantic & Social Web - What's In It For You?

Here's an excellent slide presentation from Simon Cross and Ben Smith of BBC Future Media and Technology to illustrate a talk about the social semantic side of the BBC they presented last month at Futuresonic 09. The semantic web is the underlying plumbing...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Social Web, Tim Berners Lee, Semantic Web, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Phiaton PS 300 Primal Series Noise Canceling Headphones

Phiaton edged its way into the headphone market last year with its MS 400 Moderna Series headphones, an eye-catching set that brought solid sound quality and comfortable construction to the table. Now, with the considerably more portable PS 300 Noise Canceling headphones, the company continues its tradition of sleek design...

Tags: Depeche Mode, Bass, headphone, Bose, Phiaton PS 300 headphone, Phiaton PS 300

Product reviews 2009-04-29

Best Buy to sell vinyl records?

The sale of vinyl records is on the rise. But why would anyone want to buy something that can't be easily popped into your car stereo, or placed in your computer to burn to your iPod? Well, apparently, people don't care about those things, or they're finding ways to transfer...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Vinyl Record, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Radiohead: Filesharing good for music biz

Radiohead: Filesharing good for music bizNot convinced"In Rainbows ... 1.75M copies...compares very favorably to Amnesiac?s 900,000 sales and Hail to the Thief?s 990,000."To be a valid argument this assumes that the songs are equally popular, released with equal marketing effort ... indeed 'all things being equal'. To be statistically valid...

Tags: Sales strategy, Strategy, huge artist

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

News to know: IBM-Sun; RIM, Web 2.0; CTIA; Facebook; iPhone

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM-Sun deal nears finish line; Antitrust worries just starting Sam Diaz: RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, CTIA, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Open Source, Internet

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Radiohead: Filesharing good for music biz

The trial of Joel Tenenbaum is rapidly shaping up as a referendum on the harm of file-sharing, or lack thereof. Thus the star witness in Harvard law prof Charles Nesson's defense of Tenenbaum will be Radiohead manager Brian Message, MediaPost reports (via Ray...

Tags: Nesson, Sales Strategy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Sales, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Klipsch Custom 2 headphones

Klipsch is a relatively new player in the headphone game, but its reputation as a high-end speaker manufacturer dates back to the 1940s. Building on the success of the company's knockout Image X10 earphones, the Klipsch Custom line delivers impressive sound quality in a larger, more durable design.DesignThe Klipsch Custom...

Tags: Klipsch Custom 2, Klipsch Custom, headphone

Product reviews 2008-10-20

IT Analysis - Emissions Auditing

To try to get to the bottom of all the questions, and more besides, Quocirca spent some time with an emissions auditing specialist, Best Foot Forward. With more than a decade of experience Best Foot Forward are an Oxford based consulting company, which has managed emissions reductions projects for customers...

Tags: Quocirca, Information Technology, Auditing

White papers 2008-09-22

All-you-can-eat multithreading

Yesterday, I ran across an interesting report by Dan Warne regarding research work at Intel's Shanghai office. It had a number of notable nuggets, such as remote graphics rendering technology that receives wireless video signals from a pocket-sized PC coming soon to an airline seat near you, or software...

Tags: Software, Video, Programming, Multi-threading, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Google's blast from the past

Google has launched a new feature called "Custom Time" that lets you manipulate the headers on your email so it appears to have been sent in the past. The email will show up in the proper chronological order in your recipients inbox, and you can even have it marked as...

Tags: Google Inc., Virgin Galactic, E-mail, Online Communications, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-01