This weekend’s time waster. It’s a fad.  A program to be superseded like spell checkers were incorporated into word processors, like Microsoft wrote its own browser to kill Netscape.  But right now, IT FEELS SO GOOD! Here’s the story.  A guy wrote a program that searches YouTube and Last.fm and creates a Web-based Spotify.  Free.  […]

Subject: Cracker/camper van Beethoven and Groupon. Strange but true. Read your article bob.  Nice piece. Largely you are right about the risk averse bakwards thinking folks who run the music business now. But strangely music types played a small but important role in the history of groupon.  In particular myself and my two bands. In […]

@butterflyylost I hope that fixes it. If not send me an email at schiller@apple.com and I’ll forward it to AppleCare. HE’S GIVING OUT HIS E-MAIL ADDRESS? Isn’t it funny that music executives think they’re moguls, gods who function separately from their customers, and the tech guys are readily accessible. And the story is not only […]

When Google starts from scratch, it’s a disaster.  Like Google TV, Dead On Arrival, have you been reading the reviews, even the tech superstars can’t figure it out and Sony’s already lowered the price! Then there’s Google Wave… But when they acquire a company, watch out. Look at YouTube.  A category killer as well as […]