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Sampled + Sorted moves to Tumblr
Last month, I swapped my personal blogging over to Tumblr. I may still post the occasional “essay” over here, but the short multimedia posting action on Tumblr seems the right fit for now. Check it out here.
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8tracks
As many of you know, I’ve been focused on a new digital music venture for about 2 years now, starting with a pretty “web 1.0″ path (write business plan, create financial model, talk to VCs) and subsequently wising up to a more pragmatic approach (tap friends and 401k, build and iterate on product, attract people [...]
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While I’m on this list-making tip, I just noticed SAI is now tracking the most valuable digital startups. This is a useful list and includes details on how the valuations were estimated. I like the fact that the list is global and features some surprises, at least for me:
FB and Wikipedia top the [...]
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I wrote on Wed about the notion of “total attention” as a useful metric by which to evaluate music or other websites — but didn’t explain my thinking or actually run the numbers.
As so many have written over the last decade, a large and growing proportion of GDP comprises products and services that are (or [...]
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Stickier music sites
If one assumes advertising (or other sorts of attention-based business models) will be the primary driver of revenues for online music services — or really any online services — then a total measure of attention is useful in establishing the value of the service.
I’ve generally presented music sites ranked by “people” (compete.com’s version of unique [...]
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A bit off-topic but I’m annoyed.
I’m a big fan of Apple. In years past, I’ve subscribed to .Mac though of late haven’t really seen much benefit. I noticed the annual charge came through on my bank account last week. No notice was given in advance, but I called Apple’s customer support team [...]
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twitter- davidporter: @ericporcher I think that's the big problem with these on-demand subscription services in general. If I pay for MUSIC, I want to own it.
- davidporter: @ericporcher Got it - so the big listener-side proposition for a subscription offering would be unlimited (or more) skipping.
- davidporter: RT @hnshah -- The 50 Best Movies of 2009 http://bit.ly/6oK1OF
