Archive for the 'Online' Category


News

Turntable.fm This is the hottest thing going. Right now. Most Websites are a fad.  Will Turntable.fm be such? We’ll find out! But Turntable.fm has got one thing that Pandora does not.  Sociability.  You’re not listening alone, you’re listening with your buds. And please watch this video to the point where you learn how to earn […]

RIM

It’s toast! Have you seen a PlayBook in the field?  They claim to have shipped 500,000…TO DISTRIBUTORS!  Middlemen own those tablets, not customers. And speaking of customers, the story here is that the public leads.  So busy focusing on the demands of business, RIM missed the boat, all the exciting developments were in the consumer […]

Facebook

"Finally canceled my Facebook account today. That was long overdue." http://twitter.com/#!/dhh Sites built upon user-generated content are vulnerable.  Any day people can pick up and take their content elsewhere, or stop playing entirely.  In other words, unless people have a reason to go to your site, unless it adds value to their lives without any […]

Pandora IPO

This is all about name-recognition.  Investors are stupid.  They know little about the products of the companies they lay their dollars down for.  They’re acting on buzz. And buzz has nothing to do with profits.  Certainly not long term. What we’ve got here is a phenomenal job of brand-building.  Tim Westergren, like a carnival barker […]